using std::chrono::steady_clock for timing

Question

I was wondering if it would be a good idea to use the steady_clock class (in the C++ std libraries) for game timing. What are the pros/cons of using it as opposed to using a game library's timing mechanism?

Answer 1

As far as I understood std::chrono you cant be sure to get a high resolution timer with std::steady_clock. So you might loose some accuracy on some system if the high resolution timer is not available as steady clock. I considered that too a while ago but than I read about steady clock and high resolution. I just can't find the reference at the moment.

Edit:

Here it is http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/chrono/high_resolution_clock/ there you can see that the high resolution clock has a is_steady member. So for me it seems you can also get unsteady high resolution clocks. And on my system this member returned false. If you are fine with low resolution I think theres nothing against using steady_clock.