tai_now(3)

🦋 tai_now(3) 🦋

okay so bestie, we're in the Library Functions Manual and this page is literally called tai_now(3). it's giving "what time is it? TAI time." no cap. 💅

✨ NAME ✨

• tai_now — get current time ⏰

✨ SYNTAX ✨

#include <libowfat/tai.h>

extern int tai_now(struct tai* t);

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so tai_now puts the current time into t. periodt. but more precisely? it puts into t its best guess as to the TAI64 label for the 1-second interval that contains the current time. it's not doing extra, it's just guessing the label for the second we're in. 🎀

This implementation of tai_now assumes that the time_t returned from the time function represents the number of TAI seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:10 TAI. yep, that exact epoch. this matches the convention used by the Olson tz library in right mode. iykyk. 🦋

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

• taia_now(3) — go read that one too, bestie 💖

that's the whole tai_now(3) page from the Library Functions Manual — no date on this one, but it's still iconic. mwah 💋