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+// Copyright 2016 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+// +build darwin dragonfly freebsd linux nacl netbsd openbsd solaris
+
+package syscall
+
+// TimespecToNsec converts a Timespec value into a number of
+// nanoseconds since the Unix epoch.
+func TimespecToNsec(ts Timespec) int64 { return int64(ts.Sec)*1e9 + int64(ts.Nsec) }
+
+// NsecToTimespec takes a number of nanoseconds since the Unix epoch
+// and returns the corresponding Timespec value.
+func NsecToTimespec(nsec int64) Timespec {
+	sec := nsec / 1e9
+	nsec = nsec % 1e9
+	if nsec < 0 {
+		nsec += 1e9
+		sec--
+	}
+	return setTimespec(sec, nsec)
+}
+
+// TimevalToNsec converts a Timeval value into a number of nanoseconds
+// since the Unix epoch.
+func TimevalToNsec(tv Timeval) int64 { return int64(tv.Sec)*1e9 + int64(tv.Usec)*1e3 }
+
+// NsecToTimeval takes a number of nanoseconds since the Unix epoch
+// and returns the corresponding Timeval value.
+func NsecToTimeval(nsec int64) Timeval {
+	nsec += 999 // round up to microsecond
+	usec := nsec % 1e9 / 1e3
+	sec := nsec / 1e9
+	if usec < 0 {
+		usec += 1e6
+		sec--
+	}
+	return setTimeval(sec, usec)
+}