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Re: Tenths of seconds in Date

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Subject: Re: Tenths of seconds in Date
From: Norman Palardy <npalardy at great-white-software dot com>
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:14:31 -0600
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On 29-Jun-07, at 2:05 PM, Arnaud Nicolet wrote:

> Le 29 juin 07 à 21:50 Soir, Fargo Holiday a écrit:
>
>> I honestly don't know. The tick counter is reset anytime the
>> computer is
>> restarted, or if the value rolls over, which happens in systems
>> that are
>> on for very long periods of time. The attempt is to generate a tick
>> every millisecond, but in practice the general indication is that  
>> it's
>> "close" to that.
>
> Thanks. Do you know what in the OS updates the value?

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/mac/Toolbox/Toolbox-80.html
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Reference/ 
Memory_Manag_nt_Utilities/Reference/reference.html#//apple_ref/c/func/ 
TickCount
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