TIME8(3f)

DESCRIPTION
Returns the current time encoded as an integer (in the manner of the function time(3) in the C standard library). This value is suitable for passing to CTIME, GMTIME, and LTIME.

Warning: this intrinsic does not increase the range of the timing values over that returned by time(3). On a system with a 32-bit time(3), TIME8 will return a 32-bit value, even though it is converted to a 64-bit INTEGER(8) value. That means overflows of the 32-bit value can still occur. Therefore, the values returned by this intrinsic might be or become negative or numerically less than previous values during a single run of the compiled program.

STANDARD
GNU extension

CLASS
Function

SYNTAX
RESULT = TIME8()

RETURN VALUE
The return value is a scalar of type INTEGER(8).

SEE ALSO
CTIME, GMTIME, LTIME, MCLOCK8, TIME

AUTHOR

This information was taken from the GFortran documentation (https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-5.3.0/gfortran/) and converted to a manpage by AstroFloyd (http://astrofloyd.org).