TIMEF

Portability Function: Returns the number of seconds since the first time it is called, or zero.

Module: USE IFPORT

Syntax

result = TIMEF( )

Results

The result type is REAL(4). The result value is the number of seconds that have elapsed since the first time TIMEF was called.

The first time it is called, TIMEF returns 0.

Compatibility

CONSOLE STANDARD GRAPHICS QUICKWIN GRAPHICS WINDOWS DLL LIB

See Also

Date and Time Procedures

Example

 USE IFPORT
 INTEGER i, j
 REAL(8) elapsed_time
 elapsed_time = TIMEF( )
 DO i = 1, 100000
    j = j + 1
 END DO
 elapsed_time = TIMEF( )
 PRINT *, elapsed_time
 END