I need to measure time elapsed in seconds, like this:

> auto start = Clock.currStdTime();
> // some stuff
> auto stop = Clock.currStdTime();
> auto duration = (stop-start)/10000000;

This works, but I wonder if there is something better that using the magic constant 10000000. I read about 10.secs giving the duration of 10 seconds, but I don't understand how to adapt this to my case. I've read the documentation of core.time, std.datetime (and the Introduction to this package) but I can't make head or tail of it.

PS: It's not about benchmarking. I'd like to show the user the time elapsed.

15.02.2017 16:19, berni пишет:
> I need to measure time elapsed in seconds, like this:
>
>> auto start = Clock.currStdTime();
>> // some stuff
>> auto stop = Clock.currStdTime();
>> auto duration = (stop-start)/10000000;
>
> This works, but I wonder if there is something better that using the
> magic constant 10000000. I read about 10.secs giving the duration of 10
> seconds, but I don't understand how to adapt this to my case. I've read
> the documentation of core.time, std.datetime (and the Introduction to
> this package) but I can't make head or tail of it.
>
> PS: It's not about benchmarking. I'd like to show the user the time
> elapsed.
doesn't it work for you?
```
void main()
{
    import std.datetime, core.thread, std.stdio;

    MonoTime before = MonoTime.currTime;
    Thread.sleep(dur!"msecs"(1000));
    MonoTime after = MonoTime.currTime;
    Duration timeElapsed = after - before;

    writeln(timeElapsed);
}
```
I get: "1 sec, 26 μs, and 4 hnsecs"

On Wednesday, 15 February 2017 at 13:19:57 UTC, berni wrote:
> I need to measure time elapsed in seconds, like this:
>
>> auto start = Clock.currStdTime();
>> // some stuff
>> auto stop = Clock.currStdTime();
>> auto duration = (stop-start)/10000000;
>
> This works, but I wonder if there is something better that using the magic constant 10000000. I read about 10.secs giving the duration of 10 seconds, but I don't understand how to adapt this to my case. I've read the documentation of core.time, std.datetime (and the Introduction to this package) but I can't make head or tail of it.
>
> PS: It's not about benchmarking. I'd like to show the user the time elapsed.

How about something like this:

import std.stdio;

void main()
{
	import core.thread, core.time;
	import std.conv, std.datetime;

	auto start = Clock.currTime;
	Thread.sleep(500.msecs);
        auto diff = Clock.currTime - start;

	diff.writeln; // Duration
	(diff.total!"msecs").writeln;
	(to!("msecs", long) (diff.to!TickDuration)).writeln;
	(to!("msecs", double)(diff. to!TickDuration)).writeln;
}

Note that TickDuration is deprecated.

On Wednesday, February 15, 2017 16:27:34 drug via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> 15.02.2017 16:19, berni пишет:
> > I need to measure time elapsed in seconds, like this:
> >> auto start = Clock.currStdTime();
> >> // some stuff
> >> auto stop = Clock.currStdTime();
> >> auto duration = (stop-start)/10000000;
> >
> > This works, but I wonder if there is something better that using the magic constant 10000000. I read about 10.secs giving the duration of 10 seconds, but I don't understand how to adapt this to my case. I've read the documentation of core.time, std.datetime (and the Introduction to this package) but I can't make head or tail of it.
> >
> > PS: It's not about benchmarking. I'd like to show the user the time elapsed.
>
> doesn't it work for you?
> ```
> void main()
> {
>      import std.datetime, core.thread, std.stdio;
>
>      MonoTime before = MonoTime.currTime;
>      Thread.sleep(dur!"msecs"(1000));
>      MonoTime after = MonoTime.currTime;
>      Duration timeElapsed = after - before;
>
>      writeln(timeElapsed);
> }
> ```
> I get: "1 sec, 26 μs, and 4 hnsecs"

This is the correct way to do it. Using SysTime for timing things is wrong, because it's not a monotonic clock. So, it could be changed - even going backwards - while you're doing the timing. MonoTime, on the other hand, uses the system's monotonic clock and is therefore guaranteed to move forward at a fixed rate.

- Jonathan M Davis

On Wednesday, 15 February 2017 at 15:58:41 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> [...]
>>      MonoTime before = MonoTime.currTime;
>>      Thread.sleep(dur!"msecs"(1000));
>>      MonoTime after = MonoTime.currTime;
>>      Duration timeElapsed = after - before;
>>
>>      writeln(timeElapsed);
>> }
>> ```
>> I get: "1 sec, 26 μs, and 4 hnsecs"
>
> This is the correct way to do it. [...]

Oh, thanks for noting this. As I finally needed the seconds as an int (or long) I had to use timeElapsed.total!"seconds" which I would not have found out without Seb's posting. :-)