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docs: Recommend against using GTimeVal

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Ryan Lortie 2010-11-02 22:12:55 -04:00
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@ -52,10 +52,7 @@ representation is valid. Sometimes neither is valid. Use the API.
</para>
<para>
GLib doesn't contain any time-manipulation functions; however, there
is a #GTime typedef and a #GTimeVal struct which represents a more
precise time (with microseconds). You can request the current time as
a #GTimeVal with g_get_current_time().
GLib also features #GDateTime which represents a precise time.
</para>
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@ -84,6 +81,12 @@ Similar to the <structname>struct timeval</structname> returned by
the <function>gettimeofday()</function> UNIX call.
</para>
<para>
GLib is attempting to unify around the use of 64bit integers to
represent microsecond-precision time. As such, this type will be
removed from a future version of GLib.
</para>
@tv_sec: seconds
@tv_usec: microseconds