# GETTIMEOFDAY

Portability Subroutine: Returns seconds and microseconds since 00:00 Jan 1, 1970.

## Module

USE IFPORT

CALL GETTIMEOFDAY (ret, err)

ret | (Output) INTEGER(4). One-dimensional array with 2 elements used to contain numeric time data. The elements of ret are returned as follows:
Element | Value
--- | ---
ret(1) | Seconds
ret(2) | Microseconds
err | (Output) INTEGER(4).

If an error occurs, err contains a value equal to -1 and array ret contains zeros.

On Windows* systems, this subroutine has millisecond precision, and the last three digits of the returned value are not significant.

Parent topic: G