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)