In C++, what's the easiest way to get the system time?

[jamieyello]

I am writing a SmileBASIC interpreter, SmileBASIC being a modified version of basic that ran on the official licensed games Petit Computer (DSi) and SmileBASIC (3ds). I need a way to get time in order to recreate the WAIT (number) function, which takes in a number and stops for that amount of time in 1/60ths seconds. It doesn't actually wait, though, it throttles more like, so I need a way to measure when 1/60th of a second has passed, and not add the time it took to execute other running code to that.

I did this with <chrono>, but every time I make a specific completely unrelated string array larger than a couple of strings it returns a constant -2 million something, it's just not working correctly. Is there a good alternative, or does anyone know why it's acting this way?

...
#include <chrono>
...

//Outside my main loop
auto SBStartTime = Clock::now();

//This function returns how long the program has been running in 1/60ths of seconds
long long int getTime(){
     auto t2 = Clock::now();
     return std::chrono::duration_cast<std::chrono::nanoseconds>(t2-SBStartTime).count() / 16666666.6667;
}

 

[Joe88]

Did you try using ctime? http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/ctime/

 

[jamieyello]

Did you try using ctime? http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/ctime/

I'm pretty new to C++, is there a way to get nanoseconds from that? (Better yet 1/60th seconds so I don't have to bother with conversion)

I actually think I did look at that and couldn't figure out how to get more accurate time than seconds.

 

[jamieyello]

I basically fixed this by moving the place where I declared the starting time (
autoSBStartTime=Clock::now() to after all other arrays were set. I think they were conflicting somehow. Weird.

Edit Hey my code got a winky face