difftime - calculate time difference
Contents
Attributes
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬───────────────┬─────────┐
│ Interface │ Attribute │ Value │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────┼─────────┤
│ difftime() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────┴─────────┘
Description
The difftime() function returns the number of seconds elapsed between time time1 and time time0,
represented as a double. Each time is a count of seconds.
difftime(b,a) acts like (b-a) except that the result does not overflow and is rounded to double.
History
POSIX.1-2001, C89, SVr4, 4.3BSD.
Library
Standard C library (libc, -lc)
Name
difftime - calculate time difference
See Also
date(1), gettimeofday(2), time(2), ctime(3), gmtime(3), localtime(3) Linux man-pages 6.9.1 2024-05-02 difftime(3)
Standards
C11, POSIX.1-2008.
Synopsis
#include<time.h>doubledifftime(time_ttime1,time_ttime0);