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Subj : Re: Short interval timing
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : john blackburn
Date : Thu Apr 29 2004 05:22 pm

Dwayne wrote:

>        Hello John,
> 
> John>>"john blackburn" <john.blackburn@lintonhealy.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:4090c11d@newsgroups.borland.com...
> I am writing a small application that must only use standard C and C++
> libaries as it must be recompilable on a variety of platforms.<<
> 
>        I think this is what you want....
> 
> 
> should work with unix too.
> 
> 
> Include <stdio.h>
> Include <stdlib.h>
> Include<time.h>
> Include<sys\timeb.h>
> 
> char *tzstr="TZ=PST8PDT"; Pacific time with daylight savings.
> 
> int main(void)
>  {
>   struct timeb t;
>  putenv(tzstr);
> tzset();
>  ftime(&t);
>  printf("Thousands of a second is  %d\n",t.millitm);
> return (0);
> }
> 
>                Dwayne

Many thanks Dwayne,  I don't need to set the time region as I am looking
only for time elapsed between events. An int should be able to hold any
reasonable time difference I want in milliseconds.

So the only thing the Linux/Unix/Mac people really need to tweak is library
directory path.

John

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