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What exactly does this mean --> Time(NULL)

I wonder what this mean.

4th Nov 2016, 7:40 AM
Jenilyn Salonga
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It's very simple. In the C++ versions before C++11 the NULL macro was used to signal that a pointer is a null pointer (i.e. a pointer that points to an invalid address). The NULL macro is 0 in all definitions I know. Ergo "time(NULL)" means "time(0)" which returns the seconds since so-called "epoch": 1.1.1970 00:00:00
4th Nov 2016, 8:35 AM
Stefan
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haha .. iloveyou
5th Nov 2016, 1:15 AM
KG Feignh
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