Note that during testing this option behaved exactly as r does as shown below.
Wall clock time linux.
Options to display the hour.
Clock realtime a settable system wide clock that measures real i e wall clock time.
The times 2 function which explicitly returns separate information about the caller and its children may be preferable.
In other words it is the difference between the time at which a task finishes and the time at which the task started.
Your computer stores the time in a hardware clock on its motherboard.
By default windows assumes the time is stored in local time while linux assumes the time is stored in utc time and applies an offset.
It takes a pointer to a struct timeval variable.
The tv sec field contains the integral number of seconds and the tv usec field contains an additional number of microseconds.
This struct timeval value represents the number of.
Wall clock time is the time that a clock on the wall or a stopwatch in hand would measure as having elapsed between the start of the process and now.
This leads to one of your operating systems showing the wrong time in a dual boot situation.
Prints the time according to your locale using the 24 hour clock.
This structure represents a time in seconds split into two fields.
The interpretation of the corre sponding time values and the effect on timers is unspecified.
On a linux machine configured for the uk locale and set to gmt it printed the time using the 24 hour clock with no am or pm indicator as expected.
The user cpu time and system cpu time are pretty much as you said the amount of time spent in user code and the amount of time spent in kernel code.
Elapsed real time real time wall clock time or wall time is the actual time taken from the start of a computer program to the end.
Real time is elapsed time which is usually the difference between wall clock times but not always.
Sufficiently recent versions of glibc and the linux kernel support the following clocks.
The gettimeofday system call gets the system s wall clock time.
See also clock gettime 2 getrusage 2 times 2 referenced by localtime 3 time 7.
Setting this clock requires appropriate.
More clocks may be implemented.
Linux does not include the times of waited for children in the value returned by clock.
If it is linux related and doesn t seem to fit in any other forum then this is the place.
For example if you start a process at 01 59 00 on the day in which daylight savings summer time takes effect in a locale in which the time change is at 02 00 and the process takes two minutes then the real elapsed time will be two minutes while the wall clock will show a difference of.
Wall time is thus different from cpu time which measures only the time during which the processor is actively working on a certain task.