[SOLVED] gettimeofday on Windows?

[Vadi]

Hi all,

I'm doing some experimentation with time on a simple C program. I got the Linux version to work okay with the help of gettimeofday, localtime. But on windows, I found that the timeval structure exists in winsock2.h, which doesn't have a gettimeofday..

I searched around some, but I'm not familiar with programming resources for Windows. Can anyone help me out / point me in the right direction?

I essentially want to be able to tell the current system time in hours, minutes, seconds, and miliseconds.

[#Reistlehr-]

Only thing i can suggest is create an fsock to udp://localhost:13 to connect to the time server on your machine.

[Vadi]

How efficient would that me? I'd need to check the time many times per second at times.

[Wybiral]

I'm fairly certain windows has it's own way of doing this, unfortunately I'm not a Window programmer so I can't help. You might try a Windows-specific forum for people who can probably help more.

[aks44]

The daytime service is NOT enabled on Windows by default. So I seriously doubt about the usefulness of that approach.

A good resource for the Win32 API is http://msdn.microsoft.com

And FWIW Google yields very relevant results when it comes to Windows equivalents of gettimeofday()...

[Vadi]

Here's how I did it in the end:

#include <windows.h>

SYSTEMTIME st;
GetSystemTime(&st);

Then you can use st.wHour, st.wMinute, st.wSecond, and st.wMilliseconds to retrieve the values (it has days, months in it too but I don't need them).

[onetechguy]

Even though this thread was marked as solved, the solution provide was not proper (i mean not complete), so for benefit of other I would like to point to complete solution http://www.cpp-programming.net/c-tidbits/gettimeofday-function-for-windows/