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<LI><em>From</em>: Joel Kelso <<A HREF="mailto:joel#ee,uwa.edu.au">joel#ee,uwa.edu.au</A>></LI>
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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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<LI><strong><A NAME="00249" HREF="msg00249.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: [CODE] [LANGUAGE/PLATFORM SPECIFIC] My Event Engine</A></strong>,
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