[flohofwoe]

std::chrono is a terribly overengineered API even for the STL, and many game companies have banned parts or all of the STL for good reasons (usually not std::chrono related though).

Using an uint64_t (instead of uint32_t or double) to carry "opaque ticks", and a handful conversion function to convert to real-world time units is fine and just a few lines of code.

[niklasgray]

This is exactly what we do.