time_t

Real arithmetic type capable of representing times.

Although not defined by the C standard, this is almost always an integral value holding the number of seconds (not counting leap seconds) since 00:00, Jan 1 1970 UTC, corresponding to POSIX time .

Notes

The standard uses the term calendar time when referring to a value of type time_t .

Example

#include <stdio.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <stdint.h>
 
int main(void)
{
    time_t epoch = 0;
    printf("%jd seconds since the epoch began\n", (intmax_t)epoch);
    printf("%s", asctime(gmtime(&epoch)));
}

0 seconds since the epoch began
Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970

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