Programmatically compute the start time of a process on Windows

Question

I\'m writing c/c++ code on Windows using Visual Studio. I want to know how to calculate the start time of my process effectively. Can I just use gettimeofday()? I\'ve fou

Answer 1

If I understand you right you want to know what time your process started, correct? So you'll want to look into GetProcessTimes

If the process you're interested in is the current process, you can use GetCurrentProcess() to get the process handle that you'll need to call GetProcessTimes() this returns a pseudo-handle that you don't need to close.