How to get the current time in milliseconds from C in Linux?

Question

How do I get the current time on Linux in milliseconds?

Answer 1

C11 timespec_get

It returns up to nanoseconds, rounded to the resolution of the implementation.

It is already implemented in Ubuntu 15.10. API looks the same as the POSIX clock_gettime.

#include 
struct timespec ts;
timespec_get(&ts, TIME_UTC);
struct timespec {
    time_t   tv_sec;        /* seconds */
    long     tv_nsec;       /* nanoseconds */
};

More details here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/36095407/895245