Re: [Boost-users] Creating an equivalent to java's System.currentTimeMillis

From: Zeljko Vrba (zvrba_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-07-26 12:59:40

On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 05:28:50PM +0200, Philippe Mondon wrote:
> 
> 	//long returnVal = tduration.total_milliseconds();
> 	long returnVal = tperiod.length().total_milliseconds();
> 
> 
> Unfortunately, it gives only a 8 digit number (in java you've got a 13
> digit number when using currentTimeMillis) so I suspect that it does not
> give a duration since Jan the 1st 1970 (which is java reference).
> 
Integer overflow: long is 32 bits on 32-bit machine, and 13 digits does
*not* fit into 32 bits.  ("long" is incidentally 64-bit in Java).