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NAME

        uuid_time - extract the time at which the UUID was created

SYNOPSIS

        #include <uuid/uuid.h>
 
        time_t uuid_time(uuid_t uu, struct timeval *ret_tv)

DESCRIPTION

        The  uuid_time  function  extracts the time at which the supplied time-
        based UUID uu was created.  Note that the UUID creation  time  is  only
        encoded  within certain types of UUIDs.  This function can only reason‐
        ably expect to extract the creation time for  UUIDs  created  with  the
        uuid_generate_time(3) function.  It may or may not work with UUIDs cre‐
        ated by other mechanisms.
        The time at which the UUID was created, in  seconds  since  January  1,
        1970 GMT (the epoch), is returned (see time(2)).  The time at which the
        UUID was created, in seconds and microseconds since the epoch, is  also
        stored in the location pointed to by ret_tv (see gettimeofday(2)).

AUTHOR

        Theodore Y. Ts’o

AVAILABILITY

        http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/
        uuid(3),   uuid_clear(3),  uuid_compare(3),  uuid_copy(3),  uuid_gener     
        ate(3), uuid_is_null(3), uuid_parse(3), uuid_unparse(3)