On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 14:47:20 +0800, Ivan wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> G''day all. > > I''ve written a client that drives FG using the native-fdm I/O > mechanism. > > For the ''time'' variable, I've tried entering zero, and then entering > the value returned by (Win32's) GetTickCount() --> no difference. > > However, interestingly, I noticed that FG starts off at midnight (in > its internal world time) but the time advances at a phenomenal rate. > After a couple of minutes I actually see the sky lighten up, followed > by the sun rising in the east. Sunset follows about 2 min later. > > What gives ?? ..a _guess_: the 32bit unix calendar ticks over sometime in 2038, while the 32bit Wintendo calendar ticks over every 49? days, I saw this given somewhere on the web as the reason Microsoft used (they still do?) to recommend reboots about that often. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
