Creating a simple timer

[i2Fluffy]

How could I make this function delay the progress of my program? I would rather learn how to make a timer like this and not just use a simple one word function from a library.

Thanks,
Nick

void delayProgram(double secondsToDelay)
{
	clock_t startTime = clock(); //Start timer

	clock_t testTime;
	clock_t timePassed;
	double secondsPassed;

	while(true)
	{
		testTime = clock();
		timePassed = startTime - testTime;
		secondsPassed = timePassed / (double)CLOCKS_PER_SEC;

		if(secondsPassed >= secondsToDelay)
		{
			cout << secondsToDelay << "seconds have passed" << endl;
			break;
		}

	}


}

[Beniamin Kalinowski]

#include <iostream>
#include <ctime>
#include <cstdlib>

int main(int args,char* argv[])
{
 clock_t startTime = clock(); //Start timer
 double secondsPassed;
 double secondsToDelay = atof(argv[1]);
 std::cout << "Time to delay: " << secondsToDelay << std::endl;
 bool flag = true;
 while(flag)
  {
   secondsPassed = (clock() - startTime) / CLOCKS_PER_SEC;
   if(secondsPassed >= secondsToDelay)
    {
     std::cout << secondsPassed << " seconds have passed" << std::endl;
     flag = false;
    }
  }
}

$ g++ timer.cpp -o timer.out
$ ./timer.out 5
Time to delay: 5
5 seconds have passed

Actually, no comments needed I think.

[i2Fluffy]

Thank you!