adjtime - correct the time to synchronize the system clock
#include <sys/time.h>
int adjtime(const struct timeval *delta, struct timeval *olddelta);
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):
The adjtime() function gradually adjusts the system
clock (as returned by gettimeofday(2)). The amount of
time by which the clock is to be adjusted is specified in the structure
pointed to by delta
. This structure has the following form:
struct timeval {
time_t tv_sec; /* seconds */
suseconds_t tv_usec; /* microseconds */
};
If the adjustment in delta
is positive, then the system
clock is speeded up by some small percentage (i.e., by adding a small
amount of time to the clock value in each second) until the adjustment
has been completed. If the adjustment in delta
is negative,
then the clock is slowed down in a similar fashion.
If a clock adjustment from an earlier adjtime() call
is already in progress at the time of a later adjtime()
call, and delta
is not NULL for the later call, then the
earlier adjustment is stopped, but any already completed part of that
adjustment is not undone.
If olddelta
is not NULL, then the buffer that it points to
is used to return the amount of time remaining from any previous
adjustment that has not yet been completed.
On success, adjtime() returns 0. On failure, -1 is
returned, and errno
is set to indicate the error.
adjtimex(2), gettimeofday(2), time(7)