Poco

class Clock

File Information

Library: Foundation
Package: DateTime
Header: Poco/Clock.h

Description

A Clock stores a monotonic* clock value with (theoretical) microseconds resolution. Clocks can be compared with each other and simple arithmetic is supported.

[*] Note that Clock values are only monotonic if the operating system provides a monotonic clock. The monotonic() function can be used to check whether the system's clock is monotonic.

Monotonic Clock is available on Windows, Linux, OS X and on POSIX platforms supporting clock_gettime() with CLOCK_MONOTONIC.

Clock values are relative to a system-dependent epoch time (usually the system's startup time) and have no relation to the time of day.

Member Summary

Member Functions: accuracy, elapsed, isElapsed, microseconds, monotonic, operator !=, operator +, operator +=, operator -, operator -=, operator <, operator <=, operator =, operator ==, operator >, operator >=, raw, resolution, swap, update

Types

ClockDiff

typedef Int64 ClockDiff;

Difference between two ClockVal values in microseconds.

ClockVal

typedef Int64 ClockVal;

Monotonic clock value in microsecond resolution.

Constructors

Clock

Clock();

Creates a Clock with the current system clock value.

Clock

Clock(
    ClockVal tv
);

Creates a Clock from the given clock value.

Clock

Clock(
    const Clock & other
);

Copy constructor.

Destructor

~Clock

~Clock();

Destroys the Clock.

Member Functions

accuracy static

static ClockDiff accuracy();

Returns the system's clock accuracy in microseconds.

elapsed inline

ClockDiff elapsed() const;

Returns the time elapsed since the time denoted by the Clock instance. Equivalent to Clock() - *this.

isElapsed inline

bool isElapsed(
    ClockDiff interval
) const;

Returns true if and only if the given interval has passed since the time denoted by the Clock instance.

microseconds inline

ClockVal microseconds() const;

Returns the clock value expressed in microseconds since the system-specific epoch time (usually system startup).

monotonic static

static bool monotonic();

Returns true if and only if the system's clock is monotonic.

operator != inline

bool operator != (
    const Clock & ts
) const;

operator + inline

Clock operator + (
    ClockDiff d
) const;

operator += inline

Clock & operator += (
    ClockDiff d
);

operator - inline

Clock operator - (
    ClockDiff d
) const;

operator -

ClockDiff operator - (
    const Clock & ts
) const;

operator -= inline

Clock & operator -= (
    ClockDiff d
);

operator < inline

bool operator < (
    const Clock & ts
) const;

operator <= inline

bool operator <= (
    const Clock & ts
) const;

operator =

Clock & operator = (
    const Clock & other
);

operator =

Clock & operator = (
    ClockVal tv
);

operator == inline

bool operator == (
    const Clock & ts
) const;

operator > inline

bool operator > (
    const Clock & ts
) const;

operator >= inline

bool operator >= (
    const Clock & ts
) const;

raw inline

ClockVal raw() const;

Returns the clock value expressed in microseconds since the system-specific epoch time (usually system startup).

Same as microseconds().

resolution static inline

static ClockDiff resolution();

Returns the resolution in units per second. Since the Clock class has microsecond resolution, the returned value is always 1000000.

swap

void swap(
    Clock & clock
) noexcept;

Swaps the Clock with another one.

update

void update();

Updates the Clock with the current system clock.

Variables

CLOCKVAL_MAX static

static const ClockVal CLOCKVAL_MAX;

Maximum clock value.

CLOCKVAL_MIN static

static const ClockVal CLOCKVAL_MIN;

Minimum clock value.