difftime(3) Library Functions Manual difftime(3) difftime - C (libc, -lc) #include double difftime(time_t time1, time_t time0); 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(7). +----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------+ | | | | +----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------+ |difftime() | | MT-Safe | +----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------+ C11, POSIX.1-2008. POSIX.1-2001, C89, SVr4, 4.3BSD. date(1), gettimeofday(2), time(2), ctime(3), gmtime(3), localtime(3) () Yuri Kozlov ; GNU (GNU General Public License - GPL, 3 ) , - . - , , () () () . Linux man-pages 6.18 8 2026 . difftime(3)