I learning about some basic C functions and have encountered time(NULL) in some manuals.
What exactly does this mean?
I learning about some basic C functions and have encountered time(NULL) in some manuals.
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I learning about some basic C functions and have encountered time(NULL) in some manuals.
What exactly does this mean?
You can pass in a pointer to a
time_tobject thattimewill fill up with the current time (and the return value is the same one that you pointed to). If you pass inNULL, it just ignores it and merely returns a newtime_tobject that represents the current time.