uuid_time — extract the time at which the UUID was created
#include <uuid.h>
time_t
uuid_time( |
uuid_t uu, |
struct timeval *ret_tv); |
The uuid_time function
extracts the time at which the supplied time-based UUID
uu was created. Note
that the UUID creation time is only encoded within certain
types of UUIDs. This function can only reasonably expect to
extract the creation time for UUIDs created with the
uuid_generate_time(3) and
uuid_generate_time_safe(3)
functions. It may or may not work with UUIDs created by other
mechanisms.
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)).
libuuid is part of the
util-linux package since version 2.15.1 and is available from
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
uuid(3), uuid_clear(3), uuid_compare(3), uuid_copy(3), uuid_generate(3), uuid_is_null(3), uuid_parse(3), uuid_unparse(3)
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