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1/30/2018 C Library - <time.

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C Library - <time.h>
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The time.h header defines four variable types, two macro and various functions for manipulating date and time.

Library Variables
Following are the variable types defined in the header time.h −

Sr.No. Variable & Description

size_t
1
This is the unsigned integral type and is the result of the sizeof keyword.

clock_t
2
This is a type suitable for storing the processor time.

time_t is
3
This is a type suitable for storing the calendar time.

struct tm
4
This is a structure used to hold the time and date.

The tm structure has the following definition −

struct tm {
int tm_sec; /* seconds, range 0 to 59 */
int tm_min; /* minutes, range 0 to 59 */
int tm_hour; /* hours, range 0 to 23 */
int tm_mday; /* day of the month, range 1 to 31 */
int tm_mon; /* month, range 0 to 11 */
int tm_year; /* The number of years since 1900 */
int tm_wday; /* day of the week, range 0 to 6 */
int tm_yday; /* day in the year, range 0 to 365 */
int tm_isdst; /* daylight saving time */
};

Library Macros
Following are the macros defined in the header time.h −

Sr.No. Macro & Description

NULL
1
This macro is the value of a null pointer constant.

CLOCKS_PER_SEC
2
This macro represents the number of processor clocks per second.

Library Functions
Following are the functions defined in the header time.h −

Sr.No. Function & Description

char *asctime(const struct tm *timeptr)


1 Returns a pointer to a string which represents the day and time of the structure timeptr.

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2 clock_t clock(void)
Returns the processor clock time used since the beginning of an implementation defined era (normally the beginning of the program).

char *ctime(const time_t *timer)


3 Returns a string representing the localtime based on the argument timer.

double difftime(time_t time1, time_t time2)


4 Returns the difference of seconds between time1 and time2 (time1-time2).

struct tm *gmtime(const time_t *timer)


5 The value of timer is broken up into the structure tm and expressed in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) also known as Greenwich
Mean Time (GMT).

struct tm *localtime(const time_t *timer) 


6 The value of timer is broken up into the structure tm and expressed in the local time zone.

time_t mktime(struct tm *timeptr)


7 Converts the structure pointed to by timeptr into a time_t value according to the local time zone.

size_t strftime(char *str, size_t maxsize, const char *format, const struct tm *timeptr)
8 Formats the time represented in the structure timeptr according to the formatting rules defined in format and stored into str.

time_t time(time_t *timer)


9 Calculates the current calender time and encodes it into time_t format.

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