ktime_mono_to_real(9)

💅 ktime_mono_to_real(9) — the kernel API manual, bestie edition

okay so this is a section 9 (kernel API) page, and it's literally the glow-up you need when your timestamp is stuck in monotonic-land and you want it to look like an actual clock on the wall 🕰️✨

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✨ NAME ✨

ktime_mono_to_real — convert monotonic time to clock realtime. that's it, that's the whole job, and it ate 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ktime_t ktime_mono_to_real (ktime_t mono );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• mono — the monotonic time you want converted, bestie. hand it over 🫶

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

your time, but converted to the realtime clock 🔥 like it went through a whole transformation arc and came out main character energy

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

okay so the kernel file is ./include/linux/timekeeping.h and honestly the whole friend group is here:

• ktime_get_real(9)
• ktime_get_boottime(9)
• ktime_get_clocktai(9)
• ktime_get_ns(9)
• ktime_get_real_ns(9)
• ktime_get_boottime_ns(9)
• ktime_get_clocktai_ns(9)
• ktime_get_raw_ns(9)
• struct system_time_snapshot(9)
• struct system_counterval_t(9)
• struct system_device_crosststamp(9)

ngl, that's a whole squad — go say hi to all of them, iykyk 👑

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🌈 and that's the page!! brought to you by the fine folks hanging out in ./include/linux, dated October 2026, and filed under ktime_mono_to_real(9) — periodt, go convert some time bestie 💖🧚‍♀️