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PROLOG
This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface may differ (consult the corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or the interface may not be implemented on Linux.
NAME
utime.h — access and modification times structure
SYNOPSIS
#include <utime.h>
DESCRIPTION
The <utime.h> header shall declare the utimbuf structure, which shall include the following members: time_t actime Access time. time_t modtime Modification time. The times shall be measured in seconds since the Epoch. The <utime.h> header shall define the time_t type as described in <sys/types.h>. The following shall be declared as a function and may also be defined as a macro. A function prototype shall be provided. int utime(const char *, const struct utimbuf *); The following sections are informative.
APPLICATION USAGE
The utime() function only allows setting file timestamps to the nearest second. Applications should use the utimensat() function instead. See <sys/stat.h>.
RATIONALE
None.
FUTURE DIRECTIONS
The <utime.h> header may be removed in a future version.
SEE ALSO
<sys_stat.h>, <sys_types.h> The System Interfaces volume of POSIX.1‐2017, futimens(), utime()
COPYRIGHT
Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html . Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the source files to man page format. To report such errors, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .