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stime(S)


stime -- set time

Syntax

cc . . . -lc

int stime (tp)
long *tp;

Description

The stime system call sets the system's idea of the time and date. tp points to the value of time as measured in seconds from 1970-01-01 00:00 UTC.


[EPERM]
stime fails if the effective user ID of the calling process is not super-user.

Diagnostics

Upon successful completion, a value of 0 is returned. Otherwise, a value of -1 is returned, and errno is set to indicate the error.

See also

ctime(S), difftime(S), mktime(S), nl_cxtime(S), time(S)

Standards conformance

stime is not part of any currently supported standard; it was developed by UNIX System Laboratories, Inc. and is maintained by The SCO Group.
© 2003 Caldera International, Inc. All rights reserved.
SCO OpenServer Release 5.0.7 -- 11 February 2003