Current System Time (In Milliseconds)

Please don't kill me if this is blindingly obvious, but I'm about to go crazy, after searching for absolutely ages on the Internet.

I want to get the current system time and write it to a file as a string. The problem is that time() seems to be rounded to the closest second, and that's not specific enough for my needs, I really need milliseconds too.

Can anyone help? I'm really stuck. This is all I have:

Code:

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time_t rawtime; // Setup variable
time(&rawtime); // Get time
printf("%d", rawtime); // Test output

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Standard C only goes down to seconds. You'll need a compile specific function to do what you're asking.

Try a few previous threads:
http://cboard.cprogramming.com/search.php?searchid=670

Thanks for your reply, but I can't seem to find anything useful from there... Most of them are referring to timing events, which is not what I'm looking for. I'm quite happy to compile in whatever extra code is necessary. I read that it's possible to use <sys/time.h> to accomplish this task, but I don't have that library.

What compiler / OS are you running then?

check your include directory and read inside of likely files (or use search features of os) to check out structure definitions that contain millisecond fields, and then find functions that deal with them

whew that was a long post

Windows XP (but preferrably, this source could be distributed and compiled anywhere)...
I'm using LCC-Win32 to develop.

ftime

found in timeb.h

in your include/sys directory

also lcc help documents

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Originally Posted by IGAU

I read that it's possible to use <sys/time.h> to accomplish this task, but I don't have that library.

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Do you have <sys/timeb.h>?

Things in here allow access with millisecond granularity.

(Yes, folks, I know that it's not standard, but lots of systems do have it, and I thought it's worth a shot.)

Dave

I do have <sys/timeb.h>, so I'm looking at ftime(), but I don't really understand it's application. I'm not an advanced programmer in any respects... Sorry to sound like a newbie or whatever, but can someone expand on it's use in plain English a bit for me?

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Originally Posted by IGAU

I do have <sys/timeb.h>, so I'm looking at ftime(), but I don't really understand it's application. I'm not an advanced programmer in any respects... Sorry to sound like a newbie or whatever, but can someone expand on it's use in plain English a bit for me?

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How about plain C:

Code:

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/timeb.h>

int main()
{
  struct timeb tmb;

  ftime(&tmb);
  printf("tmb.time    = %ld (seconds)\n", tmb.time);
  printf("tmb.millitm  = %d (mlliseconds)\n", tmb.millitm);

  return 0;
}

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Dave

Ooh thanks, that makes a lot more sense now :)