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DIFFTIME
Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (3)Updated: 1993-07-02
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NAME
difftime - calculate time differenceSYNOPSIS
#include <time.h> double difftime(time_t time1, time_t time0);
DESCRIPTION
The difftime() function returns the number of seconds elapsed between time time1 and time time0, represented as a double. The two times are specified in calendar time, which represents the time elapsed since the Epoch (00:00:00 on January 1, 1970, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)).CONFORMING TO
SVID 3, BSD 4.3, ISO 9899NOTES
This function is required by ANSI C. On a POSIX system, time_t is an arithmetic type, and one could just define-
#define difftime(t1,t0) (double)(t1 - t0)
SEE ALSO
date(1), gettimeofday(2), time(2), ctime(3), gmtime(3), localtime(3)