Skip to main content

real_time

Discworld driver help

real_time

Name

real_time() - return the number of seconds since January 1, 1970

Synopsis

int real_time( void );

Description

Return the number of seconds since midnight (GMT) January 1, 1970.

Unlike time(), real_time() doesn't freeze while code is executing, so after a chunk of code has been executed, the difference real_time() - time() tells how many seconds the execution took.

See also

time(), ctime(), localtime(), time_expression(), uptime()