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Re: Tenths of seconds in Date

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Subject: Re: Tenths of seconds in Date
From: Arnaud Nicolet <arnaud at tribu dot ch>
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 20:09:04 +0200
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Le 29 juin 07 à 19:10 Soir, Charles Yeomans a écrit:

> 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.

Thanks, but my question actually refers to "how" the tick value is  
provided (not the declare, but how the OS counts that; is it a  
specific process, etc).
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