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Original Post

Jun 25, 2008 at 6:50 PM

Is there any simple, cross-platform method of getting time, accurate to milliseconds, in C? I am working on a game (surprise surprise) and everything so far is platform independent, I would like to keep it that way. Is there any way to get time in milliseconds?

Electrons

Jun 25, 2008 at 7:26 PM

Here ya go.

bobFritzelpuff

Jun 25, 2008 at 8:24 PM

Thanks a bunch -- is gettimeofday() compatible with windows()? I code on linux, so I have no way of testing, but obviously I would like the program to run as seamlessly as possible on both OS's.

Thanks.

Electrons

Jun 25, 2008 at 9:12 PM

There is a way to get gettimeofday() to work on Windows. However, I've heard that gettimeofday() and ftime() aren't quite in-sync with Windows time, but time() is always accurate. Maybe give the link above a shot and see what comes out...?

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