How to get current hour (time of day) in linux kernel space

Question

I\'m writing a kernel module that checks to see if the time is between two specified hours, and disables input if it is. This has to do with me wanting to make sure I go to

Answer 1

To get the local time in kernel, add the below code snippet your kernel driver:

struct timeval time;
unsigned long local_time;

do_gettimeofday(&time);
local_time = (u32)(time.tv_sec - (sys_tz.tz_minuteswest * 60));
rtc_time_to_tm(local_time, &tm);

printk(" @ (%04d-%02d-%02d %02d:%02d:%02d)\n", tm.tm_year + 1900, tm.tm_mon + 1, tm.tm_mday, tm.tm_hour, tm.tm_min, tm.tm_sec);