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<td>   returns the current calendar time of the system as time since epoch <br /> <span class="t-mark">(function)</span> <span class="editsection noprint plainlinks" title="Edit this template"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://en.cppreference.com/mwiki/index.php?title=Template:c/chrono/dsc_time&amp;action=edit">&#91;edit&#93;</a></span>
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<td colspan="2"> <div>Defined in header <code>&lt;time.h&gt;</code> </div>
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<td>   converts a <code>time_t</code> object to a textual representation <br /> <span class="t-mark">(function)</span> <span class="editsection noprint plainlinks" title="Edit this template"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://en.cppreference.com/mwiki/index.php?title=Template:c/chrono/dsc_ctime&amp;action=edit">&#91;edit&#93;</a></span>
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<td colspan="2"> <div>Defined in header <code>&lt;time.h&gt;</code> </div>
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<td>  <div class="t-dsc-member-div"><div><a href="chrono/gmtime.html" title="c/chrono/gmtime"> <span class="t-lines"><span>gmtime</span><span>gmtime_s</span></span></a></div><div><span class="t-lines"><span></span><span><span class="t-mark-rev t-since-c11">(C11)</span></span></span></div></div>
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<td>   converts time since epoch to calendar time expressed as Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) <br /> <span class="t-mark">(function)</span> <span class="editsection noprint plainlinks" title="Edit this template"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://en.cppreference.com/mwiki/index.php?title=Template:c/chrono/dsc_gmtime&amp;action=edit">&#91;edit&#93;</a></span>
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<td>   converts time since epoch to calendar time expressed as local time <br /> <span class="t-mark">(function)</span> <span class="editsection noprint plainlinks" title="Edit this template"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://en.cppreference.com/mwiki/index.php?title=Template:c/chrono/dsc_localtime&amp;action=edit">&#91;edit&#93;</a></span>
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<td>   converts calendar time to time since epoch <br /> <span class="t-mark">(function)</span> <span class="editsection noprint plainlinks" title="Edit this template"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://en.cppreference.com/mwiki/index.php?title=Template:c/chrono/dsc_mktime&amp;action=edit">&#91;edit&#93;</a></span>
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<td colspan="2"> <div>Defined in header <code>&lt;time.h&gt;</code> </div>
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<td>   number of processor clock ticks per second <br /> <span class="t-mark">(macro constant)</span> <span class="editsection noprint plainlinks" title="Edit this template"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://en.cppreference.com/mwiki/index.php?title=Template:c/chrono/dsc_CLOCKS_PER_SEC&amp;action=edit">&#91;edit&#93;</a></span>
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<td colspan="2"> <div>Defined in header <code>&lt;time.h&gt;</code> </div>
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<td>  <div class="t-dsc-member-div"><div><a href="chrono/tm.html" title="c/chrono/tm"> <span class="t-lines"><span>tm</span></span></a></div></div>
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<td>   calendar time type <br /> <span class="t-mark">(struct)</span> <span class="editsection noprint plainlinks" title="Edit this template"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://en.cppreference.com/mwiki/index.php?title=Template:c/chrono/dsc_tm&amp;action=edit">&#91;edit&#93;</a></span>
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<td>   calendar time since epoch type <br /> <span class="t-mark">(typedef)</span> <span class="editsection noprint plainlinks" title="Edit this template"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://en.cppreference.com/mwiki/index.php?title=Template:c/chrono/dsc_time_t&amp;action=edit">&#91;edit&#93;</a></span>
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<td>  <div class="t-dsc-member-div"><div><a href="chrono/clock_t.html" title="c/chrono/clock t"> <span class="t-lines"><span>clock_t</span></span></a></div></div>
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<td>   processor time since era type <br /> <span class="t-mark">(typedef)</span> <span class="editsection noprint plainlinks" title="Edit this template"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://en.cppreference.com/mwiki/index.php?title=Template:c/chrono/dsc_clock_t&amp;action=edit">&#91;edit&#93;</a></span>
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<td>  <div class="t-dsc-member-div"><div><a href="chrono/timespec.html" title="c/chrono/timespec"> <span class="t-lines"><span>timespec</span></span></a></div><div><span class="t-lines"><span><span class="t-mark-rev t-since-c11">(since C11)</span></span></span></div></div>
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<dl><dd><ul><li> 7.27 Date and time <time> (p: 388-397)
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<dl><dd><ul><li> 7.29.5.1 The wcsftime function (p: 439-440)
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<dl><dd><ul><li> 7.23 Date and time &lt;time.h&gt; (p: 338-347)
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<ul><li> C89/C90 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1990): 
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