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From: Joel Kelso <joel@ee.uwa.edu.au>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 10:20:41 +0800
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
s001gmu@nova.wright.edu wrote:
> so, yes, it is 'tick-based', but only inasmuch as the computer is tick
> based. I don't impose any artificial ticks on top of the system ticker.
> :) I do allow for the definition of a GRAIN, but that is only for
> shorthand. It gets a bit cumbersome to schedule an event to go off in one
> week of real time if you have to measure it down to the nanosecond. The
> Grain is just an int multiplied to the offset before it is added to the
> current time:
>
> t += offset * GRAIN;
Hey, this might be obvious, but how do you get a system clock millisecondsor
microseconds (nanoseconds ?) in Unix ? Is there a POSIX standard
function for this ?
Joel Kelso
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