difftime(3)

difftime3

Calculate time difference

Usage

#include <time.h>

double difftime(time_t time1, time_t time0);

Library

Standard C library (libc, -lc)

Overview

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).

InterfaceAttributeValue
difftime()Thread safetyMT-Safe

Releases

19 releases since Debian 1.1 (Buzz); the text changed 13 times.

  1. 1.1–2.2
  2. 3.0
  3. 3.1
  4. 4.0
  5. 5.0
  6. 6.0
  7. 7
  8. 8
  9. 9
  10. 10
  11. 11
  12. 12
  13. 13
  14. Arch

Standards

C11, POSIX.1-2008.

History

POSIX.1-2001, C89, SVr4, 4.3BSD.

From man-pages 6.19-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.