Finding the current time on the X server

[marnanel]

Someone asked me how you can get the current timestamp from an X server.  This is how.

Comments

[reddragdiva]

Well, okay. But WHY???

(And Xlib is deprecated and everyone should use xcb instead. Apparently.)

[pne]

Well, okay. But WHY???

That was pretty much my reaction, too.

May be discordant with reality

[(Anonymous)]

This is only useful relative to other X timestamps though: note in particular that the X server generally uses CLOCK_MONOTONIC these days, so the timestamp you get back is probably not what gettimeofday() will give you.

Re: May be discordant with reality

[(Anonymous)]

(that was me. -daniels)