Re: [PATCH] Win32 equivalent to GetTickCount systemcall (i386)

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Dec 06 2005 - 06:28:01 EST



* David Engraf <engraf.david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > (and.. wait.. isn't that called gettimeofday() )
>
> Not really gettimeofday is based on the date and time, but what if the
> user changes the date, the counter would also change.

see 'man clock_gettime', and CLOCK_MONOTONIC:

CLOCK_MONOTONIC
Clock that cannot be set and represents monotonic time since
some unspecified starting point.

and it has microsecond resolution.

Ingo
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