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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 00:00:00 Greenwich mean
                  time, January 1, 1970.
 
     timezone     The difference in minutes, moving westward, between
                  Greenwich mean 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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