difftime(3) Library Functions Manual difftime(3) NAME difftime - calculate time difference LIBRARY Standard C library (libc, -lc) SYNOPSIS #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. 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). ATTRIBUTES For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see at- tributes(7). ┌────────────────────────────────────────────┬───────────────┬─────────┐ │Interface │ Attribute │ Value │ ├────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────┼─────────┤ │difftime() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │ └────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────┴─────────┘ STANDARDS POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, C99, SVr4, 4.3BSD. NOTES On a POSIX system, time_t is an arithmetic type, and one could just de- fine #define difftime(t1,t0) (double)(t1 - t0) when the possible overflow in the subtraction is not a concern. SEE ALSO date(1), gettimeofday(2), time(2), ctime(3), gmtime(3), localtime(3) Linux man-pages 6.03 2022-12-29 difftime(3)
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