Hey guys,

I'm going to be developing a small dedicated server in C/C++ that will require uptime of forever. I've been looking into some time functions as millisecond timing is required for calculations. I have 2 problems that I'm facing:

1. Using a 32bit integer to store the number of milliseconds since the operation began will wrap around at about the 49 days mark resetting to zero.

2. There doesn't seem to be any standard system calls for getting elapsed milliseconds that are platform independant

What should I do to resolve both these issues?