Shriramana Sharma wrote: > > E.g. The Unix API uses either seconds since midnight UTC, Jan 1st 1970 > > (time(), typically 32 bits) or seconds and microseconds since that > > time (gettimeofday(), typically 32 bits for each component), while > > Java uses milliseconds since that date (64 bits). > > Oh! I did not know that Java can return system time to millisecond > precision. To be precise, it returns the time at millisecond *granularity*; the precision is limited by the OS. > Is there a C or C++ function that can do that? gettimeofday() returns the current time at microsecond granularity. -- Glynn Clements <glynn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-c-programming" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html