> The CSN used in OpenLDAP 2.4 uses a generalizedTime stamp with microsecond > resolution. *nix's gettimeofday() provides varying resolution in reality, > but at least the API is defined to the microsecond. If you want to make > yourself nauseous, look at the code I had to write to get equivalent > resolution on Windows...
Yuk ... Sadly, even if Sun added the System.nanoTime() method, we can't use it to get a better accuracy than the rough 10 to 20 ms on Java ... Just looking at the Javadoc tells you that you are at risk : "...The value returned represents nanoseconds since some fixed but arbitrary time (perhaps in the future, so values may be negative)..." Maybe Doc used it on his DeLorean ;) Another option in Java would be to switch to JNI, but that mean the same dirty C code on W$ has to be written, plus the burden of having targetted installation ... No way ! Thanks Howard ! -- Regards, Cordialement, Emmanuel Lécharny www.iktek.com
