Time from Pub.Stdc

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Vertex

(Posted 2006) [#1]

How does work the time and localtime function in mods/pub/stdc.mod/stdc.bmx ?
Function time_(time:Byte Ptr)

Print(time_(Null)) is this the unix time?
time:Byte Ptr what is this for a parameter?

cu olli

tonyg

(Posted 2006) [#2]

Check function Currenttime() in System.bmx.

Vertex

(Posted 2006) [#3]

Oh, thank you!

Is there any way, to calculate the current time with a resolution of 1 millisecond?

cu olli

tonyg

(Posted 2006) [#4]

Not as far as I can tell with a simple command.
Not 100% sure I have this right but I *think* it gives you the time to 1sec plus the additional ms.

Local	time[256]
Local start_t:Int=MilliSecs()
While Not KeyHit(KEY_ESCAPE) 
	Print time_(time) + " " + ((MilliSecs()-start_t) Mod 1000)
	Delay 500
Wend

The delay is just to 'slowdown' the output.

Vertex

(Posted 2006) [#5]

Hi!
Thank you, but this is not, what I need :) I want the current time(Unix Time) with a resolution of 1 millisecond.

I've done this actualy so:

Global StartTime : Long

StartTime = Long(time_(Null))*1000 - MilliSecs()

...

Function GetTime:Long()
	Return StartTime + MilliSecs()
End Function

cu olli

FlameDuck

(Posted 2006) [#6]

For some obscure reason, BlitzMAX does not support POSIX timestamps. On Linux, I believe MilliSecs() actually does return the number of milliseconds since the POSIX Epoch (or at least it used to), but for some reason this is/was specific to the Linux implementation.