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C# / .NET - get current machine time in seconds

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aaliyah

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C# / .NET it is possible to take machine time in seconds in following way.

Getting second time with `Stopwatch.GetTimestamp` method example

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public static class TimeUtils
{
    public static long GetSeconds()
    {
        double timestamp = Stopwatch.GetTimestamp();
        double seconds = timestamp / Stopwatch.Frequency;
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        return (long)seconds;
    }
}

Example:

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long t1 = TimeUtils.GetSeconds();
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Thread.Sleep(1000);
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long t2 = TimeUtils.GetSeconds();
long dt = t2 - t1;
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Console.WriteLine(t2 + " - " + t1 + " = " + dt + " s");

Output:

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200206 - 200205 = 1 s

Notes:
Stopwatch.GetTimestamp returns time from timer mechanism - system up time.
The best application of this time could be measuring how much time took some operations.