.. highlightlang:: us

.. _tic:

tic
===

.. index:: tic

.. us.tag  tic ENGLISH DATETIME Changed400

:ref:`tic` retrieves the number of milliseconds that have elapsed since UniPlot
was started.

.. function::  rsTics = tic()

.. us.return

**Return Value**

*rsTics* is the number of milliseconds that have elapsed
since UniPlot was started.

.. us.comment

**Comment**

:ref:`tic` is most often called with :ref:`toc`.

.. seealso::
   :ref:`overview-date-and-time`,
   :ref:`toc`,
   :ref:`GetTickCount`

:sub:`id-187775`