Article View: borland.public.jbuilder.java.language
Article #14838Re: A seperate timer
From: Steve Schafer (TeamB)
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 00:00
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 00:00
18 lines
1402 bytes
1402 bytes
On Wed, 28 Jul 1999 15:55:30 -0500, "Gary Klein" <gary@eolas.com> wrote: >We want to keep time on an IBM-PC which will not be vulnereable to a System >administartor changing the System clock. I'm thinking there might be another >register somewhere that you can use which will count milliseconds. No, there isn't. There is a tick counter on Windows systems, but its resolution is generally in the vicinity of 10-20 msec. You can access it with a native function that calls the GetTickCount API function. Obviously, this will only work on a Windows machine. There are also two other timers you can use, a very high-resolution timer (QueryPerformanceCounter) and the multimedia timer (timeGetTime). These are good for measuring time intervals, but not so good for absolute time. -Steve
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<37aac50d.103030571@90.0.0.40>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mailReferences:
<7nncho$8288@forums.borland.com> <37a63d0c.68207641@90.0.0.40> <7nnqr0$8f69@forums.borland.com>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f74b3,4c871b8a3bc42f23 X-Google-Attributes: gidf74b3,public From: pandeng@telepath.com (Steve Schafer (TeamB)) Subject: Re: A seperate timer Date: 1999/07/29 Message-ID: <37aac50d.103030571@90.0.0.40> X-Deja-AN: 506445663 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <7nncho$8288@forums.borland.com> <37a63d0c.68207641@90.0.0.40> <7nnqr0$8f69@forums.borland.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: TeamB Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: pandeng@telepath.com Newsgroups: borland.public.jbuilder.java.language