Intel® Fortran Compiler 16.0 User and Reference Guide

RTC

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

Module

USE IFPORT

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.

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.'

Parent topic: Q to R

See Also

TIME portability routine