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Re: st: Time to run a program


From   Jean-Benoit Hardouin <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Time to run a program
Date   Wed, 12 May 2004 22:59:53 +0200

Excuse me, it miss a part of my message. The original message was :
Note : Elapse permit to consider 24 hours, but the problem is not solve over several days. For my present problem, this procedure is enough.
Jean-Benoit Hardouin


Le Thu, 13 May 2004 08:49:16 +0200, Jean-Benoit Hardouin <[email protected]> a écrit:


over several days. For my present problem, this procedure is enough.
Jean-Benoit Hardouin


Le Wed, 12 May 2004 20:31:35 +0200, Jean-Benoit Hardouin <[email protected]> a écrit:


OK thank you everybody for these explanations.

My problem is to save the time of computing, because my aim is to compare by simulations several methods, notably to compare them over the time of computing. These method are very long to run (several hours for one of them, several dizains of minutes for two others, seval seconds for the four last), and I so, the displaying of the time of computing is not enough for me: I must save it.

The rmsg and profiler command don't permit a priori to save this time of computing. Since the simulations can run over several days, I must consider the problem of the date, so the problem is complex.

The elapse command seem to be a solution, as the time of computing can be saved in a global macro ($S_elap) even the obtained result is strange (111 means 1 minute and 11 seconds !!). I test it.

So thank you to Antoine, Ulrich, E. Leuven, Davis and Nick for their help to solve this problem.

Jean-Benoit Hardouin




Le Wed, 12 May 2004 12:40:17 -0400, David Kantor <[email protected]> a écrit:


At 06:06 PM 5/12/2004 +0200, Jean-Benoit Hardouin wrote:
this command permet to display the date/time, but don't solve my problem (Perhaps I have not see all the subtleties of this command).

My problem is to compute the time between the beginning and the end of the running of a program.

Thank you for your help.
[...]

As you mentioned in your earlier message, you can take the time using $S_TIME (or, equivalently, c(current_time) ).

I'm usually content to just display them and mentally take the difference. But it is possible to automate this. You would need to textually take apart the time value into its components, and convert to numbers. Thus:
local time1 = c(current_time)
scalar hour1 = real(substr("`time1'", 1, 2))
scalar min1 = real(substr("`time1'", 4, 2))
scalar sec1 = real(substr("`time1'", 7, 2))

Do the same for another moment in time.

Then you need to subtract them. The easiest way would be to convert them into seconds (within the day): hour1 * 3600 + min1 * 60 + sec1.

Of course, there are complications if the run spans different days. I leave that to you.

Good luck.
-- David

David Kantor
Institute for Policy Studies
Johns Hopkins University
[email protected]
410-516-5404

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