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**CLOCK(** **)**

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The **CLOCK** procedure returns the time of day from the operating system time in standard time (expressed as hundredths of a second since midnight, plus one). Although the time is expressed to the nearest hundredth of a second, the system clock is only updated 18.2 times a second (approximately every 5.5 hundredths of a second). The timestamps that you can obtain from Windows NT operating systems are limited to a maximum resolution of 10 or 15 milliseconds.

| **Return Data Type:** | LONG |

**Example:**

**Time = CLOCK()**   **!Save the system time**

**See Also:**

[[standard time.htm|Standard Time]]

[[setclock  set system time .htm|SETCLOCK]]