esets each time you SHOW SYMBOL CURRENT_DATE (or CURRENT_TIME) or evaluate one of them e.g. SAY ($CURRENT_TIME).</p>
<p align="left"><b><a name="_VPINDEXENTRY_clocksec" id="_VPINDEXENTRY_clocksec"></a>CLOCK_SECS</b><br />
gives the elapsed time in seconds since the start of the Ferret session. This is done via a call to the intrinsic function SYSTEM_CLOCK and therefore its results may be system dependent. See examples below</p>
<p><b><a name="_VPINDEXENTRY_dcpu" id="_VPINDEXENTRY_dcpu"></a>DELTA_CPU</b><br 