Printing Time since Epoch in Nanoseconds

Question

So I know how to print time since epoch in seconds, and evidently even milliseconds, but when I try nanoseconds I keep getting bogus output of an integer that\'s way too sma

Answer 1

The nanosecond part is just the "fractional" part, you have to add the seconds, too.

// otherwise gcc with option -std=c11 complaints
#define _POSIX_C_SOURCE 199309L
#include <stdio.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <inttypes.h>
#define BILLION  1000000000L
int main(void)
{
  long int ns;
  uint64_t all;
  time_t sec;
  struct timespec spec;

  clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME, &spec);
  sec = spec.tv_sec;
  ns = spec.tv_nsec;

  all = (uint64_t) sec * BILLION + (uint64_t) ns;

  printf("Current time: %" PRIu64  " nanoseconds since the Epoch\n", all);
  return 0;
}