time

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Gets time of day.

Defined in header <time.h>

Syntax

#include <time.h>
time_t time(time_t *f/mer);

Portability

DOS	UNIX	Windows	ANSI C	C++ only
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Remarks

time gives the current time, in seconds, elapsed since 00:00:00 GMT, January 1,1970, and stores that value in the location pointed to by timer, provided that timer is not a null pointer.

Return value

time returns the elapsed time in seconds, as described.

Example

#include <time.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <dos.h>

int main(void)
(
   time_t t;
   t = time(NULL);
   printfC'The number of seconds since January  1, 1970 is %ld",t);
   return 0;

Differences from modern implementations

Nothing recorded yet.

Modern references

cppreference (search)
POSIX (search)
Microsoft C runtime (search)

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Stable link: /3.1/time.h/time/ · short form /3.1/time/