Re: Current Time in milliseconds
From: Chris Tacke, eMVP (ctacke_at_spamfree-opennetcf.org)
Date: 05/18/04
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Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 10:37:58 -0400
Yes, it's an OEM limitation (and common among all CE OEMs that I've used).
While the SYSTEMTIME structure itself has a milliseconds field, I've never
seen a kernel implementation that actually used it. Not saying that it
can't be done, just that I've never seen it.
-- Chris Tacke, eMVP Co-Founder and Advisory Board Member www.OpenNETCF.org --- --- Principal Partner OpenNETCF Consulting www.OpenNETCF.com "Oz" <user@domain.invalid> wrote in message news:ufM87RNPEHA.624@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl... > > The issue is not with the timers at all. I need to be able to re-sync > with the system clock after a soft/hard reset so I need to get better > than 1 second resolution of the current time. 100 (maybe even 200) ms > resolution would be adaquate. > > System.Environment.Ticks is of no value since it resets every time you > reboot and the app has to work between soft resets. > > I've thought about starting a number of timers ( maybe 1 timer every > 50-100 ms ) and checking which is the first to tick over to the next > second and using that one as a re-sync though this sounds a bit nasty. > > Or starting a performance counter that polled the time every 10 ms until > the second ticked over and then kicked off a timer. > > Is this just an OEM (HP iPAQ 5500) limitation that has no real solution? > > Thanks again. > Oz > > Chris Tacke, eMVP wrote: > > I've yet to see a CE device that support the SystemTime down to the > > millisecond. In fact the desktop is only down to about 80ms. If you need a > > ms timer, use the system tick, or a performance counter for even finer > > resolution. > > > > > > -Chris > > > > "Oz" <user@domain.invalid> wrote in message > > news:OXqThjiOEHA.2952@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl... > > > >>Hi all, > >> > >>I'm using an HP iPAQ 5500 and I need to get the current time down to the > >>millisecond. Date.Now returns time down to the second, but that is not > >>accurate enough for my needs. > >> > >>I can't use a timer since I need to keep track of time through > >>application/windows restarts. > >> > >>Any ideas? > >> > >>TIA. > >>Oz > > > > > >
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