How to get current timestamp in milliseconds since 1970 just the way Java gets

Question

In Java, we can use System.currentTimeMillis() to get the current timestamp in Milliseconds since epoch time which is -

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Answer 1

If you have access to the C++ 11 libraries, check out the std::chrono library. You can use it to get the milliseconds since the Unix Epoch like this:

#include 

// ...

using namespace std::chrono;
milliseconds ms = duration_cast< milliseconds >(
    system_clock::now().time_since_epoch()
);