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
>
> --
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