ETIME(3f)

DESCRIPTION
ETIME(VALUES, TIME) returns the number of seconds of runtime since the start of the process's execution in TIME. VALUES returns the user and system components of this time in VALUES(1) and VALUES(2) respectively. TIME is equal to VALUES(1) + VALUES(2).

On some systems, the underlying timings are represented using types with sufficiently small limits that overflows (wrap around) are possible, such as 32-bit types. 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.

This intrinsic is provided in both subroutine and function forms; however, only one form can be used in any given program unit.

VALUES and TIME are INTENT(OUT) and provide the following:

VALUES(1): User time in seconds. VALUES(2): System time in seconds. TIME: Run time since start in seconds.

STANDARD
GNU extension

CLASS
Subroutine, function

SYNTAX

CALL ETIME(VALUES, TIME). TIME = ETIME(VALUES), (not recommended).

ARGUMENTS

VALUESThe type shall be REAL(4), DIMENSION(2). TIMEThe type shall be REAL(4).

RETURN VALUE
Elapsed time in seconds since the start of program execution.

EXAMPLE
          program test_etime
              integer(8) :: i, j
              real, dimension(2) :: tarray
              real :: result
              call ETIME(tarray, result)
              print *, result
              print *, tarray(1)
              print *, tarray(2)
              do i=1,100000000 ! Just a delay
                  j = i * i - i
              end do
              call ETIME(tarray, result)
              print *, result
              print *, tarray(1)
              print *, tarray(2)
          end program test_etime

SEE ALSO
CPU_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).