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emc



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emc 16 Nov 2011, 11:43
Hello,

I am trying to get the clock time on Linux. I think I have to use the gettimeofday() syscall, but I don't understant very well this page: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man2/gettimeofday.2.html (seconds and microseconds, wtf).

I am not sure gettimeofday() is the more suitable syscall to do that I want to do. What do you think about that?

Have you any ideas, please?


Regards Wink

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Matrix 16 Nov 2011, 17:15
well its your best option for a high resolution timer, you may use RDTSC (pentium and later) if you have a stable CPU clock frequency though.
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Endre 19 Nov 2011, 21:52
gettimeofday() returns the time in seconds and microseconds since the Epoch (1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 (UTC)). That's the only thing the kernel provides you. To compute some human readable format (year, month, day, etc.) is already your task. If you however like to use libc, then this is no problem. Here a C code example:
Code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <sys/time.h>

int main(void)
{
    struct timeval tv;

    if(gettimeofday(&tv, (struct timezone*)NULL) == 0) {
        printf("%s", asctime(localtime(&tv.tv_sec)));
    }

    return 0;
}    
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Matrix



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Matrix 25 Nov 2011, 01:37
though we're still off-topic with our C-codes on linux ;<
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emc 25 Nov 2011, 16:41
Thanks for replies.
We are not off-topic with our C codes, I want write my code in assembly, but thanks for the C code example, it's useful to get a better idea of the problem Wink
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f0dder 26 Nov 2011, 16:08
Matrix wrote:
well its your best option for a high resolution timer, you may use RDTSC (pentium and later) if you have a stable CPU clock frequency though.
Pleaase don't consider RDTSC a general-purpose high-frequency timer.

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Matrix 26 Nov 2011, 22:18
f0dder wrote:
Matrix wrote:
well its your best option for a high resolution timer, you may use RDTSC (pentium and later) if you have a stable CPU clock frequency though.
Pleaase don't consider RDTSC a general-purpose high-frequency timer.


yeah, i have considered HRT...
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