Capturing a time in milliseconds

Question

The following piece of code is used to print the time in the logs:

#define PRINTTIME() struct tm  * tmptime;
time_t     tmpGetTime;
time(&tmpGetTime);
tm         


        

Answer 1

If you don't want to use any OS-specific code, you can use the ACE package which supplies the ACE_OS::gettimeofday function for most standard operating systems. For example:

ACE_Time_Value startTime = ACE_OS::gettimeofday();

do_something();

ACE_Time_Value endTime = ACE_OS::gettimeofday();

cout << "Elapsed time: " << (endTime.sec() - startTime.sec()) << " seconds and " << double(endTime.usec() - startTime.usec()) / 1000 << " milliseconds." << endl;

This code will work regardless of your OS (as long as ACE supports this OS).