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.TH TIMERADD 3 2009-02-26 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
timeradd, timersub, timercmp, timerclear, timerisset \- timeval operations
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.B #include <sys/time.h>

.BI "void timeradd(struct timeval *" a ", struct timeval *" b ,
.BI "              struct timeval *" res );

.BI "void timersub(struct timeval *" a ", struct timeval *" b ,
.BI "              struct timeval *" res );

.BI "void timerclear(struct timeval *" tvp );

.BI "int timerisset(struct timeval *" tvp );

.BI "int timercmp(struct timeval *" a ", struct timeval *" b ", " CMP );
.fi
.sp
.in -4n
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
.BR feature_test_macros (7)):
.in
.sp
All functions shown above:
_BSD_SOURCE
.SH DESCRIPTION
The macros are provided to operate on
.I timeval
structures, defined in
.I <sys/time.h>
as:
.sp
.in +4n
.nf
struct timeval {
    time_t      tv_sec;     /* seconds */
    suseconds_t tv_usec;    /* microseconds */
};
.fi
.in
.PP
.BR timeradd ()
adds the time values in
.I a
and
.IR b ,
and places the sum in the
.I timeval
pointed to by
.IR res .
The result is normalized such that
.I res\->tv_usec
has a value in the range 0 to 999,999.

.BR timersub ()
subtracts the time value in
.I b
from the time value in
.IR a ,
and places the result in the
.I timeval
pointed to by
.IR res .
The result is normalized such that
.I res\->tv_usec
has a value in the range 0 to 999,999.

.BR timerclear ()
zeros out the
.I timeval
structure pointed to by
.IR tvp ,
so that it represents the time at midnight
on the morning of 1 January 1970 (the Epoch).

.BR timerisset ()
returns true (non-zero) if either field of the
.I timeval
structure pointed to by
.I tvp
contains a non-zero value.

.BR timercmp ()
compares the timer values in
.I a
and
.I b
using the comparison operator
.IR CMP ,
and returns true (non-zero) or false (0) depending on
the result of the comparison.
Some systems (but not Linux/glibc),
have a broken
.BR timercmp ()
implementation,
.\" HP-UX, Tru64, Irix have a definition like:
.\"#define timercmp(tvp, uvp, cmp) \
.\"    ((tvp)->tv_sec cmp (uvp)->tv_sec || \
.\"    (tvp)->tv_sec == (uvp)->tv_sec && (tvp)->tv_usec cmp (uvp)->tv_usec)
in which
.I CMP
of
.IR >= ,
.IR <= ,
and
.I ==
do not work;
portable applications can instead use

    !timercmp(..., <)
    !timercmp(..., >)
    !timercmp(..., !=)
.SH RETURN VALUE
.BR timerisset ()
and
.BR timercmp ()
return true (non-zero) or false (0).
.SH ERRORS
No errors are defined.
.SH CONFORMING TO
Not in POSIX.1-2001.
Present on most BSD derivatives.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR gettimeofday (2),
.BR time (7)
.SH COLOPHON
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.I man-pages
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A description of the project,
and information about reporting bugs,
can be found at
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