GetSystemTime

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Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3

4/8/2010

This function retrieves the current system date and time. The system time is expressed in UTC.

Syntax

void GetSystemTime(
  LPSYSTEMTIME lpSystemTime
);

Parameters

  • lpSystemTime
    [out] Pointer to a SYSTEMTIME structure to receive the current system date and time.

Return Value

None.

Remarks

Millisecond granularity may not be supported by a hardware platform. The caller of this function should not rely on more than second granularity.

Requirements

Header winbase.h
Library coredll.lib
Windows Embedded CE Windows CE 1.0 and later
Windows Mobile Windows Mobile Version 5.0 and later

See Also

Reference

Time Functions
GetLocalTime
SetSystemTime
SetTimeZoneInformation
SYSTEMTIME

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