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Return accumulated system CPU time in seconds.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bsls_stopwatch.h>`

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double
accumulatedSystemTime() const;
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== Description

Return the total (instantaneous and quiescent) elapsed system time (in seconds) accumulated by this stopwatch, or 0 if the collection of CPU times is disabled.

== Return Value

accumulated system time in seconds, or 0 if CPU timing is off


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