i believe it works just cant see it doing..

[programmeraie125]

okay trying to make a count down time for my game and this is what i have so far for the clock

clock_t previousTime = clock();
{
DrawString("Time: ",450,48,2.2);  
}
int numSecondsPassed = ( clock() - previousTime ) / CLOCKS_PER_SEC;

[KRAkatau]

Are you sure that even one second passes between two calls?
One option is to convert to float (e.g ((float)clock() - previousTime) / CLOCKS_PER_SEC). However clock() function has quite a high granularity and has a limited applicability. If you are under windows, you may use QueryPerformanceCounter/QueryPerformanceFrequency to make much more accurate measures of elapsed time.

[Gaminic]

clock() updates every ~16ms, I think. Should be more than enough if you want a time in seconds.

[rollie]

CLOCKS_PER_SEC presumably 1000, and DrawString is going to take less than 1s, so numSecondsPassed will always be < 1. Since it's an integer, it will truncate to 0. Various solutions are available, but we need to know what numSecondsPassed is being used for to give good advice.