On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:16:42 -0700, SpreadTooThin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am wondering if someone who knows the implemention of python's time
> could help converting this to c/c++....
>
> nanoseconds = int(time.time() * 1e9)
[straightforward non-time arithmetic snipped]
>
> vs unix gettimeofday....
>
> int gettimeofday(struct timeval *tp, struct timezone *tzp);
>
> struct timeval {
> long tv_sec; /* seconds since Jan. 1, 1970 */
> long tv_usec; /* and microseconds */
> };
Quite simply, time.time() corresponds to tv_sec + tv_usec/1e6,
modulo any rounding and numerical errors introduced by the
floating-point format used.
> struct timezone {
> int tz_minuteswest; /* of Greenwich */
> int tz_dsttime; /* type of dst correction to apply */
> };
The struct timezone is not set by Linux/glibc gettimeofday(), so
you can happily ignore it. You only want UTC time anyway.
/Jorgen
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