C++ Programming/Code/Standard C Library/Functions/time

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Syntax
#include <ctime>
time_t time( time_t *time );

The function time() returns the current time, or -1 if there is an error. If the argument time is given, then the current time is stored in time.

Related topics
asctime - clock - ctime - difftime - gmtime - localtime - mktime - strftime
(Other Standard C functions) srand - the preprocessor macros __DATE__ and __TIME__