time() in System Libraries STDLIB

IMPORT_C time_t time(time_t *_timer);

Description

Intended Usage: Get current UTC time. Get the number of seconds elapsed since 00:00 hours, Jan 1, 1970 UTC from the system clock.

Parameters


                              time_t *_timer

Location where to store the retrieved value. If this is NULL the value is not stored. But it is still returned by the function. time_t is generally defined by default to long.

Return value

time_t

Elapsed time in seconds, as described.