system-wall-clock-timestamp.h

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 * Copyright (c) 2020 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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 * Author: Peter D. Barnes, Jr. <pdbarnes@llnl.gov>
 */
 
#ifndef SYSTEM_WALL_CLOCK_TIMESTAMP_H
#define SYSTEM_WALL_CLOCK_TIMESTAMP_H
 
/**
 * \file
 * \ingroup system
 * ns3::SystemWallClockTimestamp declaration.
 */
 
#include <ctime> // ctime, time_t
#include <string>
 
namespace ns3
{
 
/**
 * Utility class to record the difference between two wall-clock times.
 */
class SystemWallClockTimestamp
{
  public:
    /** Constructor */
    SystemWallClockTimestamp();
 
    /** Record the current wall-clock time and delta since the last stamp(). */
    void Stamp();
 
    /**
     * Get the last time stamp as a string.
     * \return The last time stamp.
     */
    std::string ToString() const;
 
    /**
     * Get the last recorded raw value.
     * \returns The last time stamp recorded.
     */
    std::time_t GetLast() const;
 
    /**
     * Get the last recorded interval.
     * \returns The interval between the last two time stamps.
     */
    std::time_t GetInterval() const;
 
  private:
    /** The last time stamp. */
    std::time_t m_last;
 
    /** Difference between the two previous time stamps. */
    std::time_t m_diff;
 
}; // class SystemWallClockTimestamp
 
} // namespace ns3
 
#endif /* SYSTEM_WALL_CLOCK_TIMESTAMP_H */