When is an ESP device with Thinger.io aware of time?

Sorry for asking permanently questions.:crazy_face:

I just wondered: it seems that the thinger.io library for ESP devices contains code to get time from a NTP server.
When ist that code active and do we have the t_time POSIX data freely available?
If yes, I could avoid a lot of superfetatory code and boot faster.

Thank you for your adviceā€¦