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<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
- <para><function>sd_event_now()</function> returns the timestamp
- the most recent event loop iteration began. This timestamp is
- taken right after returning from the event sleep, and before
+ <para><function>sd_event_now()</function> returns the time when
+ the most recent event loop iteration began. A timestamp
+ is taken right after returning from the event sleep, and before
dispatching any event sources. The <parameter>event</parameter>
- parameter takes the even loop object to retrieve the timestamp
+ parameter specifies the event loop object to retrieve the timestamp
from. The <parameter>clock</parameter> parameter specifies the clock to
retrieve the timestamp for, and is one of
- <constant>CLOCK_REALTIME</constant> (or its equivalent
+ <constant>CLOCK_REALTIME</constant> (or equivalently
<constant>CLOCK_REALTIME_ALARM</constant>),
- <constant>CLOCK_MONOTONIC</constant> or
- <constant>CLOCK_BOOTTIME</constant> (or its equivalent
- <constant>CLOCK_BOOTTIME_ALARM</constant>), see <citerefentry
- project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>clock_gettime</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ <constant>CLOCK_MONOTONIC</constant>, or
+ <constant>CLOCK_BOOTTIME</constant> (or equivalently
+ <constant>CLOCK_BOOTTIME_ALARM</constant>), see
+ <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>clock_gettime</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>
for more information on the various clocks. The retrieved
timestamp is stored in the <parameter>usec</parameter> parameter,
in µs since the clock's epoch. If this function is invoked before
- the first event loop iteration the current time is returned, as
+ the first event loop iteration, the current time is returned, as
reported by <function>clock_gettime()</function>. To distinguish
this case from a regular invocation the return value will be
- positive non-zero in this case, while it is zero when the returned
- timestamp refers to the actual event loop iteration.</para>
+ positive, and zero when the returned timestamp refers to an actual
+ event loop iteration.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Return Value</title>
<para>If the first event loop iteration has not run yet
- <function>sd_event_now()</function> returns the requested
- timestamp in <parameter>usec</parameter> and returns a positive,
- non-zero return value. Otherwise, on success it will return the
- iteration's timestamp in <parameter>usec</parameter> and 0 as
- return value. On failure, the call returns a negative errno-style
+ <function>sd_event_now()</function> writes current time to
+ <parameter>usec</parameter> and returns a positive return value.
+ Otherwise, it will write the requested timestamp to <parameter>usec</parameter>
+ and return 0. On failure, the call returns a negative errno-style
error code.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Errors</title>
- <para>Returned errors may indicate the following problems:</para>
+ <para>Returned values may indicate the following problems:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>