Re: kernel gettimeofday?
Re: kernel gettimeofday?
- Subject: Re: kernel gettimeofday?
- From: "Duane Murphy" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:01:00 -0700
--- At Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:00:29 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
>On Oct 23, 2008, at 1:08 PM, Duane Murphy wrote:
>> Is there an equivalent method for getting the current wall clock date
>> and time akin to gettimeofday() from the kernel or IOKit?
>
>There are time calls, but they are generally in GMT, since unlike
>gettimeofday(), there's no concept of time zone in the kernel itself.
This may be enough for our situation. I've not been able to work out
which calls to use.
>Most of these calls are pretty expensive. If you are wanting this
>data for logging purposes, you should log to a user space program that
>attaches the timestamps there.
This is not for logging and the calls are not used very often.
...Duane
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