How to get the current time in milliseconds from C in Linux?

Derived from Dan Moulding's POSIX answer, this should work :

#include <time.h>
#include <math.h>

long millis(){
    struct timespec _t;
    clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME, &_t);
    return _t.tv_sec*1000 + lround(_t.tv_nsec/1e6);
}

Also as pointed out by David Guyon: compile with -lm

This version need not math library and checked the return value of clock_gettime().

#include <time.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdint.h>

/**
 * @return milliseconds
 */
uint64_t get_now_time() {
  struct timespec spec;
  if (clock_gettime(1, &spec) == -1) { /* 1 is CLOCK_MONOTONIC */
    abort();
  }

  return spec.tv_sec * 1000 + spec.tv_nsec / 1e6;
}