RTC

Portability Function: Returns the number of seconds elapsed since a specific Greenwich mean time.

Module

USE IFPORT

Syntax

result = RTC( )

Results

The result type is REAL(8). The result is the number of seconds elapsed since 00:00:00 Greenwich mean time, January 1, 1970.

Compatibility

CONSOLE STANDARD GRAPHICS QUICKWIN GRAPHICS WINDOWS DLL LIB

Example

USE IFPORT

real(8) s, s1, time_spent

INTEGER(4) i, j

s = RTC( )

call sleep(4)

s1 = RTC( )

time_spent = s1 - s

PRINT *, 'It took ',time_spent, 'seconds to run.'

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