timeGetTime

  DWORD timeGetTime()    
  WORD wID;    

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

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