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- # Copyright (C) 1994, 1995 John W. Eaton
- #
- # This file is part of Octave.
- #
- # Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
- # under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
- # Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any
- # later version.
- #
- # Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
- # ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
- # FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License
- # for more details.
- #
- # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- # along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free
- # Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
-
- function secs = etime (t1, t0)
-
- # usage: etime (t1, t0)
- #
- # Return the difference between t1 and t0 in seconds. The arguments
- # are expected to be vectors in the form returned by clock ().
- #
- # See also: tic, toc, clock, cputime
-
- if (nargin != 2)
- usage ("etime (t1, t0)");
- endif
-
- if (is_vector (t1) && length (t1) == 6 && is_vector (t0) && length (t0) == 6)
-
- if (t1 (1) != t0 (1))
- error ("etime: can't handle timings over year boundaries yet")
- endif
-
- # XXX FIXME XXX -- could check here to ensure that t1 and t0 really do
- # make sense as vectors returned from clock().
-
- days_in_months = [31, 28, 31, 30, 31, 30 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31];
-
- if (is_leap_year (t1 (1)))
- days_in_months (2) = days_in_months (2) + 1;
- endif
-
- d1 = sum (days_in_months (1:(t1 (2) - 1))) + t1 (3);
- d0 = sum (days_in_months (1:(t0 (2) - 1))) + t0 (3);
-
- s1 = 86400 * d1 + 3600 * t1 (4) + 60 * t1 (5) + t1 (6);
- s0 = 86400 * d0 + 3600 * t0 (4) + 60 * t0 (5) + t0 (6);
-
- secs = s1 - s0;
-
- else
- error ("etime: args are not 6-element vectors");
- endif
-
-
- endfunction
-