timeGetTime

Syntax

DWORD timeGetTime()

This function retrieves the system time in milliseconds. The system time is the time elapsed since Windows was started.

Parameters

None

Return Value

The return value is the system time in milliseconds.

Comments

The only difference between this function and the timeGetSystemTime function is timeGetSystemTime uses the standard multimedia time structure MMTIME to return the system time. The timeGetTime function has less overhead than timeGetSystemTime.

See Also

timeGetSystemTime