Time Function

It is used for returning the current calendar time of the system .

The value -1 is returned in case of unavailibility of time .

It can also be called with a null pointer .

Syntax:

 time_t time(time_t *time);

Example:

 #include <time.h>

  #include <stdio.h>



  int main()

  {

    struct tm *xyz;

    time_t l;

    l = time(NULL);

    xyz = localtime(&l);

    printf(asctime(xyz));

    return 0;

  }   

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