ADJTIME(2) | System Calls Manual | ADJTIME(2) |
adjtime
— correct
the time to allow synchronization of the system clock
#include
<sys/time.h>
int
adjtime
(const
struct timeval *delta,
struct timeval
*olddelta);
adjtime
()
makes small adjustments to the system time, as returned by
gettimeofday(2),
advancing or retarding it by the time specified by the timeval
delta. If delta is negative, the
clock is slowed down by incrementing it more slowly than normal until the
correction is complete. If delta is positive, a larger
increment than normal is used. The skew used to perform the correction is
generally a fraction of one percent. Thus, the time is always a
monotonically increasing function. A time correction from an earlier call to
adjtime
() may not be finished when
adjtime
() is called again. If
delta is null, no adjustment is done. If
olddelta is non-null, the structure pointed to will
contain, upon return, the number of microseconds still to be corrected from
the earlier call. Setting the time with
settimeofday(2) will
cancel any in-progress time adjustment.
This call may be used by time servers that synchronize the clocks of computers in a local area network. Such time servers would slow down the clocks of some machines and speed up the clocks of others to bring them to the average network time.
Only the superuser may adjust the time using the
adjtime
()
function.
Upon successful completion, the value 0 is returned; otherwise the value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the error.
adjtime
() will fail if:
The adjtime
() function call appeared in
4.3BSD.
Other operating systems restrict calling
adjtime
to the superuser and might not allow
requesting the current correction without specifying a new value.
September 10, 2015 | OpenBSD-6.4 |