How to count seconds?

[frozenarmageddon]

I guess its a really noobish question... and well that's what I am, A noob :0
I kinda just need to count seconds, I guess I can make that trigger an event on my own "^^

My problem in depth is as follows:
I want to make a game based on "Human" A.I.
Its kinda simple for me to code it...
But I can't find a function in C++ that does it... I just know it must have one.

"RTFM" won't really help me here as I already checked the MSDN and couldn't really find anything like what I need... could I miss it?

I got 2 ways to "bypass" my issue... but they, of course, harder and less efficient...

~I use Visual C++ 2008 as the compiler in case it matters ^^

[GCDEF]

Your definition of in depth and mine are quite different.

Do you want to trigger an event after a specific interval or count how long has elapsed?