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NAME
difftime - calculate time difference
LIBRARY
Standard C library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
bash
#include <time.h>bash
double difftime(time_t \ntime1\n, time_t \ntime0\n);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.
ATTRIBUTES
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).
| Interface | Attribute | Value |
| difftime () | Thread safety | MT-Safe |
STANDARDS
C11, POSIX.1-2008.
HISTORY
POSIX.1-2001, C89, SVr4, 4.3BSD.
SEE ALSO
date(1), gettimeofday(2), time(2), ctime(3), gmtime(3), localtime(3)