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Re: Tenths of seconds in Date

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Subject: Re: Tenths of seconds in Date
From: Charles Yeomans <charles at declareSub dot com>
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 13:10:31 -0400
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On Jun 29, 2007, at 12:55 PM, Arnaud Nicolet wrote:

> Le 29 juin 07 à 18:27 Soir, joe at strout dot net a écrit:
>
>> On Jun 29, 2007, at 16:19 UTC, Arnaud Nicolet wrote:
>>
>>> What about using the "ticks" property?
>>> It was my first idea, but since no one suggests it, it has certainly
>>> an issue.
>>
>> No, you could probably do the same thing with Ticks.  For some
>> reason I
>> just trust Microseconds more when it comes to accuracy, but that's
>> probably just superstition.
>
> I always wondered what provides the Ticks function.
> _______________________________________________


On Mac OS, it's probably the OS function TickCount.  And Joe's unease  
may be more than superstition -- the Apple docs warn that TickCount  
may not be accurate.

Charles Yeomans
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