Re: [PATCH] Win32 equivalent to GetTickCount systemcall (i386)

[Bernd Petrovitsch]

On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 12:23 +0100, David Engraf wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 11:36 +0100, David Engraf wrote:
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> > 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.

	Bernd
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