This is a DOS script package that will calculate the time difference for you, and not just do echo %time% .
The following code will work fine until your "time-user section" takes more than 24 hours. Please forgive or give me suggestions, this is an incomplete work in which I spent about an hour.
Replace โPAUSEโ with a call to your script at the time of your own code.
DOS BAT FOLLOWS FILE:
Note: has been edited to fix the issue when leading zeros were octal rather than decimal.
Note: has been edited to handle work on "midnight", as well as output leading zeros at the output.
@echo off @rem -------------------------------------------- setlocal ENABLEEXTENSIONS set start_time=%time% echo Beginning at: %start_time% echo Running Timed Batch File echo. @rem echo %* <-- Extension for all args -- easier than following line @rem echo %0 %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9 ... ... @rem DO YOUR WORK HERE -- see "call" / PAUSE is here to "fake" work @rem call userscript.bat %* PAUSE set stop_time=%time% echo. echo Timed Batch File Completed echo Start time: %start_time% echo Stop time : %stop_time% set TEMPRESULT=%start_time:~0,2% call:FN_REMOVELEADINGZEROS set start_hour=%TEMPRESULT% @rem set TEMPRESULT=%start_time:~3,2% call:FN_REMOVELEADINGZEROS set start_min=%TEMPRESULT% @rem set TEMPRESULT=%start_time:~6,2% call:FN_REMOVELEADINGZEROS set start_sec=%TEMPRESULT% @rem set TEMPRESULT=%start_time:~9,2% call:FN_REMOVELEADINGZEROS set start_hundredths=%TEMPRESULT% set TEMPRESULT=%stop_time:~0,2% call:FN_REMOVELEADINGZEROS set stop_hour=%TEMPRESULT% @rem set TEMPRESULT=%stop_time:~3,2% call:FN_REMOVELEADINGZEROS set stop_min=%TEMPRESULT% @rem set TEMPRESULT=%stop_time:~6,2% call:FN_REMOVELEADINGZEROS set stop_sec=%TEMPRESULT% @rem set TEMPRESULT=%stop_time:~9,2% call:FN_REMOVELEADINGZEROS set stop_hundredths=%TEMPRESULT% set /A start_total=(((((%start_hour%*60)+%start_min%)*60)+%start_sec%)*100)+%start_hundredths% set /A stop_total=(((((%stop_hour%*60)+%stop_min%)*60)+%stop_sec%)*100)+%stop_hundredths% set /A total_time=%stop_total% - %start_total% set /A total_hundredths=%total_time% %% 100 set total_hundredths=00%total_hundredths% set total_hundredths=%total_hundredths:~-2% set /A total_time=%total_time% / 100 set /A total_sec="%total_time% %% 60" set total_sec=00%total_sec% set total_sec=%total_sec:~-2% set /A total_time=%total_time% / 60 set /A total_min="%total_time% %% 60" set total_min=00%total_min% set total_min=%total_min:~-2% set /A total_time=%total_time% / 60 set /A total_hour="%total_time% %% 60" @rem Handle if it wrapped around over midnight if "%total_hour:~0,1%"=="-" set /A total_hour=%total_hour% + 24 echo Total time: %total_hour%:%total_min%:%total_sec%.%total_hundredths% @rem -------------------------------------------- @rem Exit the BAT Program endlocal goto END @rem -------------------------------------------- @rem FN_REMOVELEADINGZEROS function @rem Used to remove leading zeros from Decimal @rem numbers so they are not treated as Octal. :FN_REMOVELEADINGZEROS if "%TEMPRESULT%"=="0" goto END if "%TEMPRESULT:~0,1%" NEQ "0" goto END set TEMPRESULT=%TEMPRESULT:~1% goto FN_REMOVELEADINGZEROS @rem -------------------------------------------- @rem BAT PROGRAM / FUNCTION FILE EXIT :END