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<refentry id="timeinsts">
<indexterm id="IndexTimeinsts"><primary>timeinsts</primary></indexterm>
<refentryinfo><title>Instrument Control:Time Reading</title></refentryinfo>
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>timeinsts</refentrytitle>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>timeinsts</refname>
<refpurpose>
Read absolute time in seconds.
</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<para>
Read absolute time, in seconds, since the start of an instance of an instrument.
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Syntax</title>
<synopsis>kres <command>timeinsts</command></synopsis>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Performance</title>
<para>
Time in seconds is available with <emphasis>timeinsts</emphasis>. This would return 0.5 after half a second.
</para>
<para>
<emphasis>timeinsts</emphasis> produces a k-rate variable for output. There are no input parameters.
</para>
<para>
<emphasis>timeinsts</emphasis> is similar to <link linkend="times"><citetitle>times</citetitle></link> except it returns the time since the start of this instance of the instrument.
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Examples</title>
<para>
Here is an example of the timeinsts opcode. It uses the file <ulink url="examples/timeinsts.csd"><citetitle>timeinsts.csd</citetitle></ulink>.
<example>
<title>Example of the timeinsts opcode.</title>
<para>See the sections <link linkend="UsingRealTime"><citetitle>Real-time Audio</citetitle></link> and <link linkend="CommandFlags"><citetitle>Command Line Flags</citetitle></link> for more information on using command line flags.</para>
<xi:include href="examples-xml/timeinsts.csd.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
</example>
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>See Also</title>
<para>
<link linkend="timeinstk"><citetitle>timeinstk</citetitle></link>, <link linkend="timek"><citetitle>timek</citetitle></link>, <link linkend="times"><citetitle>times</citetitle></link>
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Credits</title>
<para>
<simplelist>
<member>Author: Robin Whittle</member>
<member>Australia</member>
<member>May 1997</member>
</simplelist>
</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>
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