SessionTime

SessionTime[]

gives the total number of seconds of real time that have elapsed since the beginning of your Wolfram System session.

Details

  • SessionTime starts counting time as soon as your operating system considers your Wolfram System process to be executing.
  • SessionTime is accurate only down to a granularity of at least $TimeUnit seconds.

Examples

Basic Examples  (2)

The number of seconds since this kernel session started:

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Get cumulative wall-clock timings during a computation:

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The intervals between timings:

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Introduced in 1991
(2.0)