POSIX defines gettimeofday [1], which fills a timeval with integer (time_t) seco...

brmgb · on May 15, 2019

> Is your concern over weather Unix Time is a time_t or a timeval?

Yes, you could put it that way. I view Unix Time as referring strictly to the time_t part (seconds since Epoch) but I might be the one in the wrong. I didn't remember that the timeval part existed in the standard.

_kst_ · on May 15, 2019

gettimeofday is obsolescent, but its replacement clock_gettime has the same issue.

gettimeofday gives you a struct timeval with microsecond resolution.

clock_gettime (which takes an extra argument specifying which of several clocks to use) gives you a struct timespec, with nanosecond resolution.

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/c...