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

We can use clock_gettime function with CLOCK_REALTIME as the type of clock.

Reference http://linux.die.net/man/3/clock_gettime

Just doing a strace on date executable gives us an idea to get the current date in the kernel mode.