What is the unit of gettimeofday()?

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John · Jul 25, 2013 · Viewed 15.5k times · Source

I've a program to calculate the latency of an object in a pub-sub model. I've used the following function for timestamp:

uint64_t GetTimeStamp() {
    struct timeval tv;
    gettimeofday(&tv,NULL);
    return tv.tv_sec*(uint64_t)1000000+tv.tv_usec;
}

The latency is measured as timestamp difference in publisher and subscriber. So, I'm concerned about the unit of the latency measured. Is it in seconds or microseconds??

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The timeval structure has tv_sec, which gives you the absolute value for the seconds, and tv_usec, which gives you the remaining fraction in micro seconds.

So, you could get the resolution in micro seconds.

For more information, http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Elapsed-Time.html

What is the unit of gettimeofday()?

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