DIFFTIME

Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (3)
Updated: July 2, 1993
 

NAME

difftime - calculate time difference  

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. The two times are specified in calendar time, which represents the time elapsed since 00:00:00 on January 1, 1970, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).  

CONFORMING TO

SVID 3, BSD 4.3, ISO 9899  

SEE ALSO

date(1), gettimeofday(2), time(2), ctime(3), gmtime(3), localtime(3)