.. highlightlang:: us

.. _time:

time
====

.. index:: time

.. us.tag  time ENGLISH DATETIME

:ref:`time` gets the time when the function is called as
a string.

.. function::  ssTime = time()

.. us.return

**Return Value**

*ssTime* is the time when the function is called as a string with
12 characters in the form hh:mm:ss,ttt: **hh** is hour; **mm** minutes; **ss** is
seconds; **tt** is thousanths of a second.

.. us.example

**Example**

::

   * time()
   21:06:20,775

.. seealso::
   :ref:`overview-date-and-time`,
   :ref:`date`,
   :ref:`GetLocalTime`

:sub:`id-1899665`