difftime — calculate time difference
#include <time.h>
double difftime( |
time_t time1, |
time_t time0); |
The difftime() function
returns the number of seconds elapsed between time time1 and time time0, represented as a
double. Each of the times is
specified in calendar time, which means its value is a
measurement (in seconds) relative to the Epoch, 1970-01-01
00:00:00 +0000 (UTC).
On a POSIX system, time_t is an arithmetic type, and one could just define
#define difftime(t1,t0) (double)(t1 − t0)
when the possible overflow in the subtraction is not a concern. On other systems, the data type time_t might use some other encoding where subtraction doesn't work directly.
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