time(3f) time(3f) Name time, ctime, ltime, gmtime - returns system time Syntax integer time, c external time c = time( ) character*len ctime, str integer stime external ctime str = ctime ( stime ) integer stime, t(9) external ltime call ltime ( stime, t ) integer stime, t(9) external gmtime call gmtime ( stime, t ) Description The time function returns the time since 00:00:00 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), Jan 1, 1970, measured in seconds. This is the value of the system clock. The ctime function converts a system time to a 24-character ASCII string. The format is described in ctime(3). No `newline' or NULL is included. The integer time value to convert is stime, such as the value returned by the time function. The ltime and gmtime functions dissect system time into month, day, and so on, either for the local time zone or as GMT. The order and meaning of each element returned in t is; t(1) seconds, 0-59 t(2) minutes, 0-59 t(3) hours past midnight, 0-23 t(4) day of the month, 1-31 t(5) month of the year, 0-11 t(6) number of years since 1900 t(7) days since Sunday, 0-6 t(8) day of the year, 0-366 t(9) daylight savings time flag. It is positive if daylight savings time is on, zero if not, and negative if the infomation is not available. Files libU77.a See Also ctime(3), fdate(3f), idate(3f), itime(3f) time(3f)