Clock in milliseconds

[Coder87C]

Hi, im writing a program that needs the real time (the one u see at the bottom right of the screen) in milliseconds. So if its 10:51 AM it would return whatever ((10*60)*60)*1000+(51*60)*1000 is. I looked at the tutorial but wasnt sure how I could get the time.

Im using windows XP and vs.net Dos would be great but not required

[ILoveVectors]

GetTickCount returns milliseconds, its got a +/- 10 millisecond
return rate.

google the function to figure out how to apply it to
your situation.

[Coder87C]

my program looks like this.

int main()
{

   DWORD time = GetTickCount();
    cout << "Time: " << time << endl ;


  system("pause");
  return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

It returned

Time: 265014671

which is 265,014,671


at about 12:00 AM.

According to my calculatoions. 12 AM is 43,200,000


Is there something im doing wrong?

[Ganoosh]

Starting from what though? The beginning of the day? When the computer was turned on? Program start? If you turn a computer on at exactly 11:59, then 12:00 should return 1000 milliseconds. But if it's turned on at 8:00 then at 12:00 it should return (60*(60*1000))*4 = a very large amount of milliseconds(from point of view of how much time passed by since computer start).

[Coder87C]

Ah ........!, ok thnx. I need to find out how to get the time in milliseconds. Like right now its 12:56. How do I detect that ?

[Br5an]

SYSTEMTIME GetSystemTime GetLocalTime Never really tried this for milliseconds though it looks like their stored. Sorry for replying to C++, just following the thread.
Regards,
Brian