[Cialug] Seconds only timestamp

Paul Gray gray at cs.uni.edu
Tue Jun 17 20:16:38 CDT 2014


On 06/15/2014 06:52 PM, Brian Wood wrote:
> Is there an api that returns just the number of seconds?  Currently
> I'm using clock_gettime and  CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE.  The
> docs say that CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE is;
> 
> "A faster but less precise version of CLOCK_REALTIME."
> 
> I don't know how coarse it is, but I only care about the seconds.

gettimeofday would be my goto call for just seconds (since epoch).


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