How do I measure execution time of a command on the Windows command line?

Question

Is there a built-in way to measure execution time of a command on the Windows command line?

Answer 1

Since others are recommending installing things like freeware and PowerShell, you could also install Cygwin, which would give you access to many basic Unix commands like time:

abe@abe-PC:~$ time sleep 5

real    0m5.012s
user    0m0.000s
sys 0m0.000s

Not sure how much overhead Cygwin adds.