clock_t与time_t的区别及联系

时间:2023-03-09 01:39:18
clock_t与time_t的区别及联系

clock_t

<ctime>
Clock type

Type capable of representing clock tick counts and support arithmetical operations.

This type is returned by the clock function of the <ctime> header to represent the number of clock ticks since the beginning of the program execution.

time_t

<ctime>
Time type

Type capable of representing times and support arithmetical operations.

This type is returned by the time function and is used as parameter by some other functions of the <ctime> header.

It is almost universally expected to be an integral value representing the number of seconds elapsed since 00:00 hours, Jan 1, 1970 UTC. This is due to historical reasons, since it corresponds to a unix timestamp, but is widely implemented in C libraries across all platforms.

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下面转自:http://www.cnblogs.com/chenyadong/archive/2011/12/03/2274783.html

clock()返回从“开启这个程序进程”到“程序中调用clock()函数”时之间的CPU时钟计时单元(clock tick)数,而sleep(5)并不占用cpu资源,导致start1和end1返回的值一样。time(&temp)返回从CUT(Coordinated Universal Time)时间1970年1月1日00:00:00(称为UNIX系统的Epoch时间)到当前时刻的秒数。总之,用time_t计时才是人们正常意识上的秒数,而clock_t计时所表示的是占用CPU的时钟单元。