Difference between revisions of "cpp/chrono/duration"

Latest revision as of 04:29, 24 July 2024

Class template std::chrono::duration represents a time interval.

It consists of a count of ticks of type Rep and a tick period, where the tick period is a compile-time rational fraction representing the time in seconds from one tick to the next.

The only data stored in a duration is a tick count of type Rep. If Rep is floating point, then the duration can represent fractions of ticks. Period is included as part of the duration's type, and is only used when converting between different durations.

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[edit] Member functions

[edit] Non-member functions

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A type /* intXX */ used in the table below means a signed integer type of at least XX bits.

Note: each of the predefined duration types up to hours covers a range of at least ±292 years.

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This specialization of std::enable_nonlocking_formatter_optimization enables efficient implementation of std::print and std::println for printing a chrono::duration object when the template parameter Rep enables it.

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[edit] Notes

The actual time interval (in seconds) that is held by a duration object d is roughly equal to d.count() * D::period::num / D::period::den, where D is of type chrono::duration<> and d is an object of such type.

[edit] Example

#include <chrono>
#include <iostream>
 
using namespace std::chrono_literals;
 
template<typename T1, typename T2>
using mul = std::ratio_multiply<T1, T2>;
 
int main()
{
    using microfortnights = std::chrono::duration<float,
        mul<mul<std::ratio<2>, std::chrono::weeks::period>, std::micro>>;
    using nanocenturies = std::chrono::duration<float,
        mul<mul<std::hecto, std::chrono::years::period>, std::nano>>;
    using fps_24 = std::chrono::duration<double, std::ratio<1, 24>>;
 
    std::cout << "1 second is:\n";
 
    // integer scale conversion with no precision loss: no cast
    std::cout << std::chrono::milliseconds(1s).count() << " milliseconds\n"
              << std::chrono::microseconds(1s).count() << " microseconds\n"
              << std::chrono::nanoseconds(1s).count() << " nanoseconds\n";
 
    // integer scale conversion with precision loss: requires a cast
    std::cout << std::chrono::duration_cast<std::chrono::minutes>(1s).count()
              << " minutes\n";
 
    // floating-point scale conversion: no cast
    std::cout << microfortnights(1s).count() << " microfortnights\n"
              << nanocenturies(1s).count() << " nanocenturies\n"
              << fps_24(1s).count() << " frames at 24fps\n";
}

1 second is:
1000 milliseconds
1000000 microseconds
1000000000 nanoseconds
0 minutes
0.82672 microfortnights
0.316887 nanocenturies
24 frames at 24fps