Python/pytime.c

#include "Python.h"

#ifdef __APPLE__
#if defined(HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY) && defined(HAVE_FTIME)
  /*
   * _PyTime_gettimeofday falls back to ftime when getttimeofday fails because the latter
   * might fail on some platforms. This fallback is unwanted on MacOSX because
   * that makes it impossible to use a binary build on OSX 10.4 on earlier
   * releases of the OS. Therefore claim we don't support ftime.
   */
# undef HAVE_FTIME
#endif
#endif

#ifdef HAVE_FTIME
#include <sys/timeb.h>
#if !defined(MS_WINDOWS) && !defined(PYOS_OS2)
extern int ftime(struct timeb *);
#endif /* MS_WINDOWS */
#endif /* HAVE_FTIME */

void
_PyTime_gettimeofday(_PyTime_timeval *tp)
{
    /* There are three ways to get the time:
      (1) gettimeofday() -- resolution in microseconds
      (2) ftime() -- resolution in milliseconds
      (3) time() -- resolution in seconds
      In all cases the return value in a timeval struct.
      Since on some systems (e.g. SCO ODT 3.0) gettimeofday() may
      fail, so we fall back on ftime() or time().
      Note: clock resolution does not imply clock accuracy! */
#ifdef HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY
#ifdef GETTIMEOFDAY_NO_TZ
    if (gettimeofday(tp) == 0)
        return;
#else /* !GETTIMEOFDAY_NO_TZ */
    if (gettimeofday(tp, (struct timezone *)NULL) == 0)
        return;
#endif /* !GETTIMEOFDAY_NO_TZ */
#endif /* !HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY */
#if defined(HAVE_FTIME)
    {
        struct timeb t;
        ftime(&t);
        tp->tv_sec = t.time;
        tp->tv_usec = t.millitm * 1000;
    }
#else /* !HAVE_FTIME */
    tp->tv_sec = time(NULL);
    tp->tv_usec = 0;
#endif /* !HAVE_FTIME */
    return;
}

void
_PyTime_Init()
{
    /* Do nothing.  Needed to force linking. */
}