[ILUG] [OT] C time_elapsed function

[Kenn Humborg]

> On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 06:28:44PM +0000, Padraig Brady wrote:
> > This just gives the boot time (in seconds since 1970) as far
> > as I can tell. Hence not what I want. I want the actual number
> > of seconds elapsed since boot, and I can't use BOOT_TIME-time(0)
> > as if the system date changes, this will be inaccurate.
> 
> 
> oh yeah, sorry, the wtmp also keeps a record of clock skews,
> flaged as OLD_TIME and NEW_TIME
> 
> man wtmp for more :o)

I did, and it seems that date(1) is responsible for adding
the OLD/NEW_TIME records.  What about ntpdate?  xntpd?

There's more than one way to set the date :-)

Later,
Kenn