clock_t begin, end;
double time_spent;

begin = clock();
/* here, do your time-consuming job */
end = clock();
time_spent = (double)(end - begin) / CLOCKS_PER_SEC;

$ time ./a.out

#include <time.h>

int main()
{
    clock_t tic = clock();

    my_expensive_function_which_can_spawn_threads();

    clock_t toc = clock();

    printf("Elapsed: %f secondsn", (double)(toc - tic) / CLOCKS_PER_SEC);

    return 0;
}

#include <sys/time.h>

struct timeval  tv1, tv2;
gettimeofday(&tv1, NULL);
/* stuff to do! */
gettimeofday(&tv2, NULL);

printf ("Total time = %f secondsn",
         (double) (tv2.tv_usec - tv1.tv_usec) / 1000000 +
         (double) (tv2.tv_sec - tv1.tv_sec));

/* ISO/IEC 9899:1990 7.12.1: <time.h>
The macro `CLOCKS_PER_SEC' is the number per second of the value
returned by the `clock' function. */
/* CAE XSH, Issue 4, Version 2: <time.h>
The value of CLOCKS_PER_SEC is required to be 1 million on all
XSI-conformant systems. */
#  define CLOCKS_PER_SEC  1000000l

#  if !defined __STRICT_ANSI__ && !defined __USE_XOPEN2K
/* Even though CLOCKS_PER_SEC has such a strange value CLK_TCK
presents the real value for clock ticks per second for the system.  */
#   include <bits/types.h>
extern long int __sysconf (int);
#   define CLK_TCK ((__clock_t) __sysconf (2))  /* 2 is _SC_CLK_TCK */
#  endif

#include <time.h>

#define CPU_TIME (getrusage(RUSAGE_SELF,&ruse), ruse.ru_utime.tv_sec +
  ruse.ru_stime.tv_sec + 1e-6 *
  (ruse.ru_utime.tv_usec + ruse.ru_stime.tv_usec))

int main(void) {
    time_t start, end;
    double first, second;

    // Save user and CPU start time
    time(&start);
    first = CPU_TIME;

    // Perform operations
    ...

    // Save end time
    time(&end);
    second = CPU_TIME;

    printf("cpu  : %.2f secsn", second - first);
    printf("user : %d secsn", (int)(end - start));
}

#include <time.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main(){
    clock_t start = clock();
    // Execuatable code
    clock_t stop = clock();
    double elapsed = (double)(stop - start) * 1000.0 / CLOCKS_PER_SEC;
    printf("Time elapsed in ms: %f", elapsed);
}

double difftime(time_t time1, time_t time0);

time_spent = (double)(end - begin) / CLOCKS_PER_SEC;