OSF DCE Application Development Guide--Core Components

Introduction to the Distributed Time Service API
Gets the time zone label and offset from GMT, given utc
• utc_mkanytime
Converts a tm structure and TDF (expressing the time in an arbitrary time zone) into
a binary timestamp
• utc_mkascreltime
Converts a null-terminated character string, which represents a relative timestamp, to
a binary timestamp
• utc_mkasctime
Converts a null-terminated character string, which represents an absolute timestamp,
to a binary timestamp
• utc_mkbinreltime
Converts a timespec structure expressing a relative time to a binary timestamp
• utc_mkbintime
Converts a timespec structure into a binary timestamp
• utc_mkgmtime
Converts a tm structure that expresses GMT or UTC to a binary timestamp
• utc_mklocaltime
Converts a tm structure that expresses local time to a binary timestamp
• utc_mkreltime
Converts a tm structure that expresses relative time to a binary timestamp
• utc_mulftime
Multiplies a relative binary timestamp by a floating-point value
• utc_multime
Multiplies a relative binary timestamp by an integer factor
• utc_pointtime
Converts a binary timestamp to three binary timestamps that represent the earliest,
most likely, and latest time
• utc_reltime
Converts a binary timestamp that expresses a relative time into a tm structure
• utc_spantime
Given two (possibly unordered) binary timestamps, returns a single UTC time
interval whose inaccuracy spans the two input timestamps
• utc_subtime
Computes the difference between two binary timestamps that express either an
absolute time and a relative time, two relative times, or two absolute times
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