How about
status = ZwQuerySystemInformation(3,&Systime,sizeof(Systime));
where systime is:
struct {
LARGE_INTEGER BootTime;
LARGE_INTEGER CurrentTime;
LARGE_INTEGER TimeZoneBias;
ULONG CurrentTimeZoneId;
} Systime;
This is from Gary Nebbett’s excellent book “Windows NT/2000 Native
API Reference”
Don Burn
NT Device Driver and Filesystem Consulting
----- Original Message -----
From: “Matt A.”
To: “NT Developers Interest List”
Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 12:55 AM
Subject: [ntdev] [Q] What’s the best way to calculate the # of milliseconds
since boot?
>
> Hello,
>
> At kernel-mode, how can I accurately – at with at least as much
> resolution – calculate the same value the user-mode function
timeGetTime()
> would return? This function returns the number of milliseconds since the
> system booted.
>
> I’m confused…
>
> KeQuerySystemTime() isn’t any good because its not accurate enough (plus I
> don’t know how to find out what time the system booted anyway –
> KeQuerySystemTime() returns a time relative to the year 1601).
>
> KeQueryInterruptTime/TickCount() with KeQueryTimeIncrement() don’t seem
> any good because apparently (according to page 311 of Dekker & Newcomer)
the
> result of KeQueryTimeInterval() can vary with user-mode calls to
> timeBegin/EndPeriod(). Typically, the interval will be something like 10
> ms, but timeBeginPeriod(1) could change it 1 ms, for example, throwing off
> any calculations done with.
>
> And, as I understand it, this would seem to imply that the comment for
> KeQueryTickCount() that appears in the Windows 2000 DDK, “To determine the
> absolute elapsed time multiply the returned TickCount by the
> KeQueryTimeIncrement”, is wrong. What’s the deal?
>
> In any case, is the following (first stab) function actualy correct?
>
> ULONGLONG Get100NsUnitsSinceStartup()
> {
> return KeQueryInterruptTime();
> }
>
> If so, then I can just code the function I need like so, eh?
>
> DWORD GetMillisecondsSinceStartup()
> {
> return KeQueryInterruptTime() / 10000;
> }
>
> But, what if user-mode code calls timeBeginPeriod(1) to reduce the
interval,
> etc.? Does the value returned by KeQueryInterruptTime() increment at a
> higher rate then?
>
> Or, is the following function correct?
>
> LONGLONG Get100NsUnitsSinceStartup()
> {
> return KeQueryTickCount() * KeQueryTimeInterval();
> }
>
> And again, what if user-mode code calls timeBeginPeriod(1)? Will
> KeQueryTimeInterval() start returning smaller values?
>
> - Matt
>
>
> —
> You are currently subscribed to ntdev as: xxxxx@acm.org
> To unsubscribe send a blank email to $subst(‘Email.Unsub’)
>