difftime - calculate time difference
Standard C library (libc
, -lc
)
#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 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
.
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).
Interface | Attribute | Value |
difftime() |
Thread safety | MT-Safe |
C11, POSIX.1-2008.
POSIX.1-2001, C89, SVr4, 4.3BSD.