C header file: <time.h> - time operations

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In C programming language time.h is a header file defined in the C Standard Library that contains time and date function declarations to provide standardized access to time/date manipulation and formatting.

The <time.h> include file declares the time manipulation functions:

A complete table of time Lybrary:

Name	Description
asctime() function	Convert date and time to a string.
clock() function	Report CPU time used.
ctime() function	Convert a time value to a date and time string.
difftime() function	Compute the difference between two calendar time values.
gmtime() function	Convert a time value to a broken-down UTC time.
localtime() function	Convert a time value to a broken-down local time.
mktime() function	Convert broken-down time into time since the Epoch.
strftime() function	Convert date and time to a string.
time() function	Get time.

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