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.\" Created Wed Mar 10 17:42:12 1999, Andreas Dilger
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.TH UUID_TIME 3 "May 2009" "util-linux" "Libuuid API"
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uuid_time \- extract the time at which the UUID was created
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.B #include <uuid/uuid.h>
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.BI "time_t uuid_time(uuid_t " uu ", struct timeval *" ret_tv )
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function extracts the time at which the supplied time-based UUID
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was created. Note that the UUID creation time is only encoded within
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certain types of UUIDs. This function can only reasonably expect to
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extract the creation time for UUIDs created with the
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.BR uuid_generate_time (3)
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function. It may or may not work with UUIDs created by other mechanisms.
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The time at which the UUID was created, in seconds since January 1, 1970 GMT
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(the epoch), is returned (see
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The time at which the UUID was created, in seconds and microseconds since
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the epoch, is also stored in the location pointed to by
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.BR gettimeofday "(2))."
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is part of the util-linux package since version 2.15.1 and is available from
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ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
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.BR uuid_generate (3),