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

Ingo Molnar
2005-12-06T11:28:42Z

* David Engraf <engraf.david@netcom-sicherheitstechnik.de> 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