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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:

S.N. Variable & Description

1
size_t

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

2
clock_t

This is a type suitable for storing the processor time.

3
time_t is

This is a type suitable for storing the calendar time.

4
struct tm

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:

S.N. Macro & Description

1
NULL

This macro is the value of a null pointer constant.


2
CLOCKS_PER_SEC

This macro represents the number of processor clocks per second.

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

S.N. Function & Description

1
char *asctimeconststructtm ∗ timeptr

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

2
clock_t clockvoid

Returns the processor clock time used since the beginning of an implementation
defined era normallythebeginningoftheprogram.

3
char *ctimeconsttimet ∗ timer

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

4
double difftimetimettime1, timettime2

Returns the difference of seconds between time1 and time2 time1 − time2.

5
struct tm *gmtimeconsttimet ∗ timer

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.

6
struct tm *localtimeconsttimet ∗ timer

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

7
time_t mktimestructtm ∗ timeptr

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

8
size_t strftimechar ∗ str, sizetmaxsize, constchar ∗ format, conststructtm ∗ timeptr

Formats the time represented in the structure timeptr according to the formatting
rules defined in format and stored into str.
9
time_t timetimet ∗ timer

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

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