System Uptime

[kolt554]

I've been looking around and have searched these forums for a way of getting the system uptime but could'nt find anything. If you can help, please do, thanks.

[johnnie2]

Look into GetTickCount().

[kolt554]

GetTickCount() returns time since Windows started in milliseconds. But what I've written is'nt very good:

DWORD ms = GetTickCount();
DWORD secs, mins, hours, days;

secs=ms/1000;
mins=secs/60;
hours=mins/60;
days=hours/24;

Gives me this:

Milliseconds: 188299656
Seconds: 188299
Minutes: 3138
Hours: 52
Days: 2

Which is not what I want. I want to end up with something which outputs something like "2 days, 4 hrs, 38 mins" - please help! Thanks.

[FillYourBrain]

just a little bit of extra math chief. I'll give you a hint. what's the number of hours when you subtract (days * 24) from it?

[golfinguy4]

Look up the floor function in math.h/cmath. After that, you are going to want to start with the greatest one (days) and work your way down. Every time you take a value, subtract the number of milliseconds from the total.

[kolt554]

o k i c.

But it seems I can't think, it's all null. Like, with your help, I came up with:

hours-days*24

to give me the hours i was after. But how do i get the minutes? Thanks

[golfinguy4]

days=miliseconds/(1000*60*60*24);
miliseconds-=days*1000*60*60*24;
//do the rest the same way