magenta/docs/syscalls/time_get.md

mx_time_get

NAME

time_get - Acquire the current time.

SYNOPSIS

#include <magenta/syscalls.h>

mx_time_t mx_time_get(uint32_t clock_id)

DESCRIPTION

mx_time_get() returns the current time of clock_id, or 0 if clock_id is invalid.

SUPPORTED CLOCK IDS

MX_CLOCK_MONOTONIC number of nanoseconds since the system was powered on.

MX_CLOCK_UTC number of wall clock nanoseconds since the Unix epoch (midnight on January 1 1970) in UTC

MX_CLOCK_THREAD number of nanoseconds the current thread has been running for.

RETURN VALUE

On success, mx_time_get() returns the current time according to the given clock ID.

ERRORS

On error, mx_time_get() currently returns 0.