ktime_get_real_ts64(9)

💖 NAME 💖

okay bestie, this is ktime_get_real_ts64(9) from the Kernel API Manual ✨ and it literally returns the time of day in a timespec64. no cap.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void ktime_get_real_ts64 (struct timespec64 *ts );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• ts — pointer to the timespec to be set. that's the whole assignment 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so it returns the time of day in a timespec64 — main character behavior, honestly. also the page says WARN if suspended 😭, so yeah, that's a real caveat, not me being dramatic.

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

kernel file ./kernel/time/timekeeping.c is the home base 🏠, and here's the whole friend group:

• struct tk_fast(9)
• tk_setup_internals(9)
• update_fast_timekeeper(9)
• ktime_get_mono_fast_ns(9)
• ktime_get_raw_fast_ns(9)
• ktime_get_boot_fast_ns(9)
• ktime_get_tai_fast_ns(9)
• ktime_get_real_fast_ns(9)
• halt_fast_timekeeper(9)
• pvclock_gtod_register_notifier(9)
• pvclock_gtod_unregister_notifier(9)
• timekeeping_forward_now(9)
• ktime_mono_to_any(9)
• ktime_get_raw(9)
• ktime_get_ts64(9)
• ktime_get_seconds(9)
• ktime_get_real_seconds(9)
• __ktime_get_real_seconds(9)
• ktime_get_snapshot_id(9)
• adjust_historical_crosststamp(9)
• ktime_real_to_base_clock(9)
• get_device_system_crosststamp(9)
• timekeeping_clocksource_has_base(9)
• do_settimeofday64(9)
• __timekeeping_inject_offset(9)
• timekeeping_notify(9)
• ktime_get_raw_ts64(9)
• timekeeping_valid_for_hres(9)
• timekeeping_max_deferment(9)
• read_persistent_clock64(9)
• read_persistent_wall_and_boot_offset(9)
• __timekeeping_inject_sleeptime(9)
• timekeeping_inject_sleeptime64(9)
• timekeeping_resume(9)
• update_wall_time(9)
• getboottime64(9)
• ktime_get_coarse_real_ts64_mg(9)
• ktime_get_real_ts64_mg(9)
• ktime_get_update_offsets_now(9)
• random_get_entropy_fallback(9)
• do_adjtimex(9)
• hardpps(9)
• ktime_get_aux(9)
• ktime_get_aux_ts64(9)

mwah 💋 source/version: ./kernel/time; date: October 2026; page: ktime_get_real_ts64(9). bye bestie, go read some timekeeping code 🫶