ANSI C get system time

For pure ANSI, you want time():
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vclib/html/_crt_time.asp?frame=true

If you're willing to live in the MS world, strtime():
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vccore98/html/_crt__strtime.2c_._wstrtime.asp?frame=true

gives it to you already in a string, but it's not standard ANSI.

on unixes try
 int gettimeofday(struct timeval *tv, struct timezone *tz);
where timeval is:
 struct timeval {
               time_t         tv_sec;        /* seconds */
               suseconds_t    tv_usec;  /* microseconds */
       };
an example:
struct timeval now;
 gettimeofday (&now, NULL);
fprintf(stderr," %i %i \n", now.tv_sec, now.tv_usec);

on windows that could also work...
  struct timeval tv;
  gettimeofday (&tv, NULL);

According to man ctime, it requires a CLOCK object pointer. Time() returns a time_t type, I don't think thats right.

wait, nevermind.