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Old 09-19-2008
jim mcnamara jim mcnamara is offline Forum Staff  
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PS call utimes(struct tms *) to actual times, plus granularity is CLK_TCK, usually way better than time().

gettimeofday can be used to get wall time even more accurately as well. utimes() returns clock_t wall time.