Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 08:25:11 -0500 From: David Syphers <dsyphers@uchicago.edu> To: Fabio Yasusi Yamamoto <fabio@hostname.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: time() Message-ID: <200206270825.11536.dsyphers@uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <3D1B09C2.2020308@hostname.org> References: <3D1B09C2.2020308@hostname.org>
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On Thursday 27 June 2002 07:49 am, Fabio Yasusi Yamamoto wrote:
> Hi
>
> When i do time(), the return value should be a UTC_time-1970year? or
local_time-1970year?
From 'man 3 time' :
"The time() function returns the value of time in seconds since 0 hours, 0
minutes, 0 seconds, January 1, 1970, Coordinated Universal Time."
> if is UTC, how can i adjust to local?
That's what time zones are for. See timezone(3) or localtime(3).
-David
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