Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Win32 equivalent to GetTickCount systemcall (i386) | From | Bernd Petrovitsch <> | Date | Tue, 06 Dec 2005 13:13:22 +0100 |
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On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 12:23 +0100, David Engraf wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 11:36 +0100, David Engraf wrote: [.../9 > > 3) wouldn't it be better to expose a wallclock time thing which > > has a constant unit of time between all kernels? > > What is it? > > > > (and.. wait.. isn't that called gettimeofday() ) > Not really gettimeofday is based on the date and time, but what if the user > changes the date, the counter would also change.
man 2 times And use the returned value.
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