Andrew's Garage

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6734375/c-boost-get-current-time-in-milliseconds

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
    boost::posix_time::ptime t1 = boost::posix_time::second_clock::local_time();
    boost::this_thread::sleep(boost::posix_time::millisec(500));
    boost::posix_time::ptime t2 = boost::posix_time::second_clock::local_time();
    boost::posix_time::time_duration diff = t2 - t1;
    std::cout << diff.total_milliseconds() << std::endl;

    boost::posix_time::ptime mst1 = boost::posix_time::microsec_clock::local_time();
    boost::this_thread::sleep(boost::posix_time::millisec(500));
    boost::posix_time::ptime mst2 = boost::posix_time::microsec_clock::local_time();
    boost::posix_time::time_duration msdiff = mst2 - mst1;
    std::cout << msdiff.total_milliseconds() << std::endl;
    return 0;
}