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authorMichael Shalayeff <mickey@cvs.openbsd.org>2002-01-24 21:15:21 +0000
committerMichael Shalayeff <mickey@cvs.openbsd.org>2002-01-24 21:15:21 +0000
commit51a26f16c3dc09f6c596a755157aa26a0f326ca8 (patch)
tree012e0d8fcad1fd1ef63da8b2a8fc8da0aa191c96 /lib
parentabf107441e7b9b3e6f610171df166992e2978b7e (diff)
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-rw-r--r--lib/libc/gen/time.311
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/time.3 b/lib/libc/gen/time.3
index eb02139ee9b..4689451454a 100644
--- a/lib/libc/gen/time.3
+++ b/lib/libc/gen/time.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: time.3,v 1.8 2000/12/24 00:30:52 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: time.3,v 1.9 2002/01/24 21:15:20 mickey Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -80,4 +80,11 @@ An argument address referenced invalid memory.
A
.Fn time
function appeared in
-.At v6 .
+.At v2
+and used to return time in sixtieths of a second in 32 bits,
+which was to guarantee a crisis every 2.26 years.
+Since the
+.At v6
+.Fn time
+scale was changed to seconds extending the pre-crisis stagnation
+period up to a total of 68 years.