timekeeping_forward_now(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

✨ timekeeping_forward_now — it's giving "clock check, bestie" ✨

okay so real talk, this page lives in the Kernel API Manual (section 9, kernel-space functions, iykyk) and it's about nudging a clock forward so it actually knows what time it is 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

timekeeping_forward_now — update clock to the current time

like, literally, catch the clock up to now 🔥

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

void timekeeping_forward_now (struct timekeeper *tk );

💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

  • tk — Pointer to the timekeeper to update. yes bestie, a pointer, you're handing it the address of the struct timekeeper you want freshened up 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So here's the vibe: this function forwards the current clock to update its state since the last call to update_wall_time. basically it's catching the clock up on everything it missed while nobody was looking 🙈

And why do you care? Because this is genuinely useful before significant clock changes — the way it works, it avoids having to deal with this time offset explicitly. no cap, that's the whole point: you skip the messy explicit-offset paperwork by getting the clock current first ✨

tl;dr: big clock change coming? forward the clock to now first and the offset drama just... doesn't happen 💅

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

okay this list is long long, so buckle up. all the siblings and cousins of this function, plus where it actually lives:

and that's the whole page, bestie, you ate that 🍓

sign-off szn: this one's hanging out in ./kernel/time, and the page is dated October 2026 — iconic, timeless, literally 💜

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