In my understading, "xtime" variable stores the current time and date, which has
tv_sec - seconds elapsed since January 1, 1970 (UTC) tv_nsec - nanoseconds in the last second - Manoj On Jan 22, 2008 7:34 PM, Erik Mouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 06:17:29PM +0530, Kathiresan, Lekshmanan wrote: > > I want to print current date and time in a kernel module. > > > > 1) do we have direct functions that we could use in kernel? > > No. > > > 2) Can get time from epoch using gettimeofday? So, how do I convert > > it to the current date and time string. Is there something similar to > > > > userspace ctime in kernel? > > You don't. The kernel doesn't have an idea about current date and time. > Date and time depends on timezone rules, and that's userspace. If you > need date and time of your local timezone in your kernel module, your > module is broken by design. > > > Erik > > -- > They're all fools. Don't worry. Darwin may be slow, but he'll > eventually get them. -- Matthew Lammers in alt.sysadmin.recovery > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFHlff5/PlVHJtIto0RAv8tAJ4qZXc0fWrWiFW6edrigxG7L1hpzgCbBsQW > QGoZuRnkNPoNjE144TohLeI= > =nP2q > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >
