TIMEVAL_TO_TIMESPEC(3)

✨ TIMEVAL_TO_TIMESPEC 💖

okay bestie, so you know how the manual calls this one Library Functions Manual? yeah that's the section 3 vibe. sit down, sip your lil drink, we're converting time structures 🕰️✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

TIMEVAL_TO_TIMESPEC, TIMESPEC_TO_TIMEVAL — convert between time structures 🦋

like literally just time-structure glow-ups in both directions, no cap.

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <sys/time.h>

void TIMEVAL_TO_TIMESPEC(const struct timeval *tv, struct timespec *ts);
void TIMESPEC_TO_TIMEVAL(struct timeval *tv, const struct timespec *ts);

bestie the #define _GNU_SOURCE is not optional, she's loading up the feature-test macros first, periodt ✨

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so these are macros (not functions, don't come for me 🙈), and they do the lil switcheroo between a timeval(3type) and a timespec(3type) struct — and back again.

• TIMEVAL_TO_TIMESPEC — takes your timeval, hands you a timespec. it's giving transformation 💖
• TIMESPEC_TO_TIMEVAL — takes your timespec, hands you a timeval. the reverse, iconic behavior 👑

the way that this is especially useful? 🥰 it's when you're writing interfaces that receive one type but are implemented with calls to functions that receive the other one. so you're out here accepting a timeval from the world but the actual calls underneath only speak timespec, and that's fine because boom, convert, slay, carry on. no drama, no rewrites, just vibes 🌈

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👑 STANDARDS 👑

GNU, BSD. she's certified in multiple houses, iykyk 💜

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ngl the whole page is short and sweet, which honestly? main character energy. short, useful, does exactly one thing. obsessed 🫶

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okay that's the whole page!! 💖 this cutie came to you from Linux man-pages 6.20, dated 2025-05-17 — go forth and convert your time structs, bestie, you got this ✨🎀🦋💅