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30 .\" @(#)adjtime.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
37 .Nd "correct the time to allow synchronization of the system clock"
43 .Fn adjtime "const struct timeval *delta" "struct timeval *olddelta"
46 makes small adjustments to the system time, as returned by
48 advancing or retarding it
49 by the time specified by the timeval
53 is negative, the clock is
54 slowed down by incrementing it more slowly than normal until
55 the correction is complete.
58 is positive, a larger increment than normal
60 The skew used to perform the correction is generally a fraction of one percent.
61 Thus, the time is always
62 a monotonically increasing function.
63 A time correction from an earlier call to
65 may not be finished when
71 the structure pointed to will contain, upon return, the
72 number of microseconds still to be corrected
73 from the earlier call.
75 This call may be used by time servers that synchronize the clocks
76 of computers in a local area network.
77 Such time servers would slow down the clocks of some machines
78 and speed up the clocks of others to bring them to the average network time.
80 If the calling user is not the super user, then the
82 function in the standard C library will try to use the
84 device if present, thus making possible for non privileged users to
85 adjust the system time.
88 is not present or not accessible, then
92 system call, which is restricted to the super user.
94 A return value of 0 indicates that the call succeeded.
95 A return value of \-1 indicates that an error occurred, and in this
96 case an error code is stored in the global variable
103 An argument points outside the process's allocated address space.
105 The process's effective user ID is not that of the super user.
114 .%T "TSP: The Time Synchronization Protocol for UNIX 4.3BSD"
121 function call appeared in