how to use gettimeofday() or something equivalent with Visual Studio C++ 2008?

Question

Hi,

Could someone please help me to use gettimeofday() function with Visual Studio C++ 2008 on Windows XP? here is a code that I found somewhere on the net:

#include < time.h >
#include <windows.h> 

#if defined(_MSC_VER) || defined(_MSC_EXTENSIONS)
  #define DELTA_EPOCH_IN_MICROSECS  11644473600000000Ui64
#else
  #define DELTA_EPOCH_IN_MICROSECS  11644473600000000ULL
#endif

struct timezone 
{
  int  tz_minuteswest; /* minutes W of Greenwich */
  int  tz_dsttime;     /* type of dst correction */
};

int gettimeofday(struct timeval *tv, struct timezone *tz)
{
  FILETIME ft;
  unsigned __int64 tmpres = 0;
  static int tzflag;

  if (NULL != tv)
  {
    GetSystemTimeAsFileTime(&ft);

    tmpres |= ft.dwHighDateTime;
    tmpres <<= 32;
    tmpres |= ft.dwLowDateTime;

    /*converting file time to unix epoch*/
    tmpres -= DELTA_EPOCH_IN_MICROSECS; 
    tmpres /= 10;  /*convert into microseconds*/
    tv->tv_sec = (long)(tmpres / 1000000UL);
    tv->tv_usec = (long)(tmpres % 1000000UL);
  }

  if (NULL != tz)
  {
    if (!tzflag)
    {
      _tzset();
      tzflag++;
    }
    tz->tz_minuteswest = _timezone / 60;
    tz->tz_dsttime = _daylight;
  }

  return 0;
}

...
// call gettimeofday()
 gettimeofday(&tv, &tz); 
 tm = localtime(&tv.tv_sec); 

Last year when I tested this code with VC++6, it worked fine. But now as I use VC++ 2008, I am getting error of exception handling. So is there any idea on how to use gettimeofday or something equivalent?

Thanks for your reply and any help would be very appreciated:

Answer 1

There are a few different types to represent a time. Here's some code I used recently:

time_t now;
tm* local;
time(&now); 
local=localtime(&now);

I then went on to build a string from pieces of local, but you could do what you wanted at this point.

Kate