uuid_time

UUID_TIME(3)                                                      UUID_TIME(3)



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 UUID uu
       was created.  Note that the UUID creation time is  encoded  within  the
       UUID,  and this function can only reasonably expect to extract the cre-
       ation time for UUIDs created with the  uuid_generate(3)  function.   It
       may or may not work with UUIDs created by OSF DCE uuidgen.

RETURN VALUES
       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
       uuid_time was written by Theodore Y. Ts'o for the ext2 filesystem util-
       ties.

AVAILABILITY
       uuid_time  is  part of libuuid from the e2fsprogs package and is avail-
       able from http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net.

SEE ALSO
       libuuid(3), uuid_clear(3), uuid_compare(3),  uuid_copy(3),  uuid_gener-
       ate(3), uuid_is_null(3), uuid_parse(3), uuid_unparse(3)



E2fsprogs version 1.32           November 2002                    UUID_TIME(3)