November 24, 2008 TVTOHZ 9

### NAME

tvtohz - convert time interval to tick count

### SYNOPSIS

```int` tvtohz(```struct timeval *tv`)

### DESCRIPTION

The tvtohz(``) function accepts a single argument ```tv` which specifies the time interval over which to calculate the number of system ticks that would elapse.

### RETURN VALUES

Returns the integral number of system ticks expected to elapse in the given interval, including the current tick.

### SEE ALSO

microtime(9), microuptime(9), timecounter(9), timeout(9)

### HISTORY

The tvtohz function first appeared in FreeBSD3.0 and was ported to NetBSD4.0 as a part of timecounter(9) framework.

### AUTHORS

This manual page was written by Kelly Yancey <kbyanc@posi.net>
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