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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2009-03-15 07:25:25 +1300
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2009-03-15 08:04:58 +1300
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ftime.3: Minor wording fixes
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
.\" Modified Sun Oct 18 17:31:43 1998 by Andries Brouwer (aeb@cwi.nl)
.\" 2008-06-23, mtk, minor rewrites, added some details
.\"
-.TH FTIME 3 2008-08-06 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH FTIME 3 2009-03-15 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
ftime \- return date and time
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ This function always returns 0.
4.2BSD, POSIX.1-2001.
POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of
.BR ftime ().
-.SH BUGS
+
This function is obsolete.
Don't use it.
If the time in seconds
@@ -82,7 +82,8 @@ can be used;
.BR gettimeofday (2)
gives microseconds;
.BR clock_gettime (2)
-gives nanoseconds but is not yet widely available.
+gives nanoseconds but is not as widely available.
+.SH BUGS
.LP
Under libc4 and libc5 the \fImillitm\fP field is meaningful.
But early glibc2 is buggy and returns 0 there;