The clock manager provides services two primary classes of services. The first focuses on obtaining and setting the current date and time. The other category of services focus on allowing a thread to delay for a specific length of time.
The directives provided by the clock manager are:
clock_gettime - Obtain Time of Day
clock_settime - Set Time of Day
clock_getres - Get Clock Resolution
sleep - Delay Process Execution
usleep - Delay Process Execution in Microseconds
nanosleep - Delay with High Resolution
gettimeofday - Get the Time of Day
time - Get time in seconds
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