From:	"Jeremy L. Buchmann" <jlbuchma AT pema DOT scs DOT unr DOT edu>
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Subject:	Re: time and milliseconds
Date:	4 Jan 1999 06:48:49 GMT
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leonj AT geocities DOT com wrote:
: Is there a way to retreive milliseconds from the time function?
: Is there a source clip to show this...?

The ftime() function is probably the most portable way of doing this.  I
have used it in Unix and it is listed in the DJGPP libc.a reference, so I
assume it works there, too.  It looks like this:

#include <sys/timeb.h>

int ftime(struct timeb *buf)

It stores the current time in the timeb structure buf.  
The format of struct timeb is:

struct timeb {
  time_t time; //This is your normal time() structure
  unsigned short millitm //milliseconds
  ... //some other stuff
}


Here is how I used it in a Unix program (compiled on Solaris if it
matters):

int SystemTime::click()
{
  timeb *tp = new timeb;
  if (ftime(tp) == 0) //if ftime() returns okay...
  {
    milliseconds = tp->millitm; //extract milliseconds here
    time_t *timecalptr = &tp->time;
    tm* tmptr = localtime(timecalptr);
    seconds = tmptr->tm_sec;
    minutes = tmptr->tm_min;
  }
}     

Like another poster said, the "granularity"  of system clocks garantees
that millisecond values won't be very accurate, but it's better than
nothing.

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