F$SECS()

Description

F$SECS() is used to retrieve the number of seconds that have passed since midnight.

Call Signature

int F$SECS ( )

Return Value

int

Returns the number of seconds that have passed since midnight.

Remarks

This is typically used for timing operations.

Note that the results will be wrong if execution crosses over `midnight'.

Example

The following commands compute the length of time the program PSG takes to compute a perspective scene.

  local integer i
  i = F$SECS
  run PSG
  i = F$SECS - i
  print "PSG took ",F$INT(i/60),"m ",i-60*F$INT(i/60),"s"

See also

F$TIME()