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# Date and time utilities

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### [edit] Functions

##### Time manipulation
Defined in header `<time.h>`
difftime | computes the difference between times (function) [edit]
time | returns the current calendar time of the system as time since epoch (function) [edit]
clock | returns raw processor clock time since the program is started (function) [edit]
timespec_get (since C11) | returns the calendar time based on a given time base (function) [edit]
##### Format conversions
Defined in header `<time.h>`
asctime asctime_s (C11) | converts a `tm` object to a textual representation (function) [edit]
ctime ctime_s (C11) | converts a `time_t` object to a textual representation (function) [edit]
strftime | converts a `tm` object to custom textual representation (function) [edit]
Defined in header `<wchar.h>`
wcsftime (C95) | converts a tm object to custom wide string textual representation (function) [edit]
Defined in header `<time.h>`
gmtime gmtime_s (C11) | converts time since epoch to calendar time expressed as Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) (function) [edit]
localtime localtime_s (C11) | converts time since epoch to calendar time expressed as local time (function) [edit]
mktime | converts calendar time to time since epoch (function) [edit]

### [edit] Constants

Defined in header `<time.h>`
CLOCKS_PER_SEC | number of processor clock ticks per second (macro constant) [edit]

### [edit] Types

Defined in header `<time.h>`
tm | calendar time type (struct) [edit]
time_t | calendar time since epoch type (typedef) [edit]
clock_t | processor time since era type (typedef) [edit]
timespec (since C11) | time in seconds and nanoseconds (struct) [edit]

### [edit] References

- C11 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:2011):

  - 7.27 Date and time <time.h> (p: 388-397)

  - 7.29.5.1 The wcsftime function (p: 439-440)

  - 7.31.14 Date and time <time.h> (p: 456)

- C99 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1999):

  - 7.23 Date and time <time.h> (p: 338-347)

  - 7.24.5.1 The wcsftime function (p: 385-386)

- C89/C90 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1990):

  - 4.12 DATE AND TIME <time.h>

### [edit] See also

C++ documentation for C Date and time utilities

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