The value returned by the clock function must be divided by the value of the CLK_TCK, as defined in the standard header file <time.h>, to obtain the time in seconds. The type clock_t is defined in the <time.h> header file as follows: typedef long int clock_t; Only the accumulated times for child processes running a C main program or a program that calls VAXC$CRTL_INIT or DECC$CRTL_INIT are included. A typical usage of the clock function is to call it after a program does its initial setup, and then again after the program executes the code to be timed. Then subtract the two values to give elapsed CPU time.