From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 2 13:23:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA29585 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 13:23:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA29577 for ; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 13:23:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA18167 for ; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 13:23:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA05263; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 13:15:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpdOX5247; Fri Oct 2 20:15:42 1998 Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 13:15:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Thomas David Rivers cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: A question I should know the answer to... In-Reply-To: <199810021944.PAA01055@lakes.dignus.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG microseconds into the current seconds.. it's the digits to the right of the decimal point. if they are > 1000000 it just means that the carry hasn't occured yet. (in some systems and situations this is possible, (but unusual)) On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Thomas David Rivers wrote: > > OK - > > In the gettimeofday() call; it returns a structure that has two > values. First, the number of seconds since 1970. The second field > is the number of microseconds. > > Certainly, the number of microseconds since 1970 is larger than > an int... so; I take it this is the number of microseconds for > the current day... is that right? > > - Thanks - > - Dave R. - > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message