time_t, suseconds_t, useconds_t - integer time
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Description
time_t Used for time in seconds. According to POSIX, it is an integer type.
suseconds_t
Used for time in microseconds. It is a signed integer type capable of storing values at least in
the range [-1, 1000000].
useconds_t
Used for time in microseconds. It is an unsigned integer type capable of storing values at least
in the range [0, 1000000].
History
time_t C89, POSIX.1-2001.
suseconds_tuseconds_t
POSIX.1-2001.
<sched.h> defines time_t since POSIX.1-2008.
POSIX.1-2001 defined useconds_t in <unistd.h> too.
Library
Standard C library (libc)
Name
time_t, suseconds_t, useconds_t - integer time
Notes
On some architectures, the width of time_t can be controlled with the feature test macro _TIME_BITS. See
feature_test_macros(7).
The following headers also provide time_t: <sched.h>, <sys/msg.h>, <sys/select.h>, <sys/sem.h>,
<sys/shm.h>, <sys/stat.h>, <sys/time.h>, <sys/types.h>, and <utime.h>.
The following headers also provide suseconds_t: <sys/select.h> and <sys/time.h>.
See Also
stime(2), time(2), ctime(3), difftime(3), usleep(3), timeval(3type) Linux man-pages 6.9.1 2024-05-02 time_t(3type)
Standards
time_t C11, POSIX.1-2008.
suseconds_tuseconds_t
POSIX.1-2008.
Synopsis
#include<time.h>typedef /* ... */ time_t;#include<sys/types.h>typedef /* ... */ suseconds_t;typedef /* ... */ useconds_t;