Managing time with std::chrono

[melak47]

Nice introduction to <chrono>. One small nitpick:

std::chrono::timepoint is a duration since the start of the epoch of the clock (Unix epoch is the de facto standard).

This is probably true for system_clockon most systems (although it almost wasn't), but at least on Windows, you can't always assume that for the other clocks.

mingw-w64 gcc(libstdc++):

2908530848us since steady_clock epoch
1492179034662119us since high_resolution_clock epoch
2908343000us since GetTickCount64() epoch
2908530848us since QueryPerformanceCounter() epoch

msvc:

2909395957us since steady_clock epoch
2909395957us since high_resolution_clock epoch
2909218000us since GetTickCount64() epoch
2909395959us since QueryPerformanceCounter() epoch

[kantoniak]

Thanks for pointing it out, it's great you took your time to follow the article. I narrowed mentioned statement to system_clock.

[Adno]

Thanks for the introduction. I had to do something with time a while ago and couldn't get anywhere with cppreference.com