need to call a function at periodic time intervals in c++

To complete the question, the code from @user534498 can be easily adapted to have the periodic tick interval.
It’s just needed to determinate the next start time point at the beginning of the timer thread loop and sleep_until that time point after executing the function.

#include <iostream>
#include <chrono>
#include <thread>
#include <functional>

void timer_start(std::function<void(void)> func, unsigned int interval)
{
  std::thread([func, interval]()
  { 
    while (true)
    { 
      auto x = std::chrono::steady_clock::now() + std::chrono::milliseconds(interval);
      func();
      std::this_thread::sleep_until(x);
    }
  }).detach();
}

void do_something()
{
  std::cout << "I am doing something" << std::endl;
}

int main()
{
  timer_start(do_something, 1000);
  while (true)
    ;
}