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30 .TH DIFFTIME 3 2015-08-08 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
32 difftime \- calculate time difference
37 .BI "double difftime(time_t " time1 ", time_t " time0 );
42 function returns the number of seconds elapsed
43 between time \fItime1\fP and time \fItime0\fP, represented as a
45 Each of the times is specified in calendar time, which means its
46 value is a measurement (in seconds) relative to the
47 Epoch, 1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 (UTC).
49 For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
57 Interface Attribute Value
60 T} Thread safety MT-Safe
66 POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, C89, C99, SVr4, 4.3BSD.
70 is an arithmetic type, and one could just
75 #define difftime(t1,t0) (double)(t1 \- t0)
79 when the possible overflow in the subtraction is not a concern.