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     The _ftime function gets the current time and stores it in the
     structure pointed to by <timeptr>. The _timeb structure is defined
     in SYS\TIMEB.H. It contains four fields (dstflag, millitm, time,
     and timezone), which have the following values:
 
     Field        Value
 
     dstflag      Nonzero if daylight saving time is currently in
                  effect for the local time zone. (See _tzset for an
                  explanation of how daylight saving time is
                  determined.)
 
     millitm      Fraction of a second in milliseconds. The last digit
                  is always zero, as millitm is incremented to the
                  nearest one-hundredth of a second.
 
     time         The time in seconds since midnight (00:00:00),
                  December 31, 1899, Universal Coordinated Time.
 
     timezone     The difference in minutes, moving westward, between
                  Universal Coordinated Time and local time. The value
                  of timezone is set from the value of the global
                  variable _timezone (see _tzset).
 
     Return Value
 
     The _ftime function gives values to the fields in the structure
     pointed to by <timeptr>. It does not return a value.
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