# Copyright (C) 1994, 1995 John W. Eaton
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function secs = etime (t1, t0)

# usage: etime (t1, t0)
#
# Return the difference between t1 and t0 in seconds.  The arguments
# are expected to be vectors in the form returned by clock ().
#
# See also: tic, toc, clock, cputime

  if (nargin != 2)
    usage ("etime (t1, t0)");
  endif

  if (is_vector (t1) && length (t1) == 6 && is_vector (t0) && length (t0) == 6)

    if (t1 (1) != t0 (1))
      error ("etime: can't handle timings over year boundaries yet")
    endif

# XXX FIXME XXX -- could check here to ensure that t1 and t0 really do
# make sense as vectors returned from clock().

    days_in_months = [31, 28, 31, 30, 31, 30 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31];

    if (is_leap_year (t1 (1)))
      days_in_months (2) = days_in_months (2) + 1;
    endif

    d1 = sum (days_in_months (1:(t1 (2) - 1))) + t1 (3);
    d0 = sum (days_in_months (1:(t0 (2) - 1))) + t0 (3);

    s1 = 86400 * d1 + 3600 * t1 (4) + 60 * t1 (5) + t1 (6);
    s0 = 86400 * d0 + 3600 * t0 (4) + 60 * t0 (5) + t0 (6);

    secs = s1 - s0;

  else
    error ("etime: args are not 6-element vectors");
  endif


endfunction