Hi All,
The large time steps returned by System.currentTimeMillis() on the MS-Windows
OS is something I've been looking at for a while.
The issue is that under windows there does not seem to be ANY OS call
(or combination of calls) that can meet the semantics of currentTimeMillis().
That is return to millisecond accuracy the number of ms since 1st January 1970.
The Windows performance timers etc all give ms (or better) accuracy but the
time base starts at 0 when windows was booted. There seems to be no way
to determine at what time (in ms since 1st January 1970) windows was booted
and the performance timers were initialized.
If anyone has figured out a solution for this issue I'd be very interested
in hearing about it....
Rgds
Paul
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>Philip Taylor wrote:
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>> a better choice would be the multimedia timers.
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>> perhaps the right folk could be pointed out, so this could be addressed?
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>I believe Sun have been made aware of this for at least a couple of
>years now. I remember back in the days of the old Berkeley advanced-java
>list that we were discussing it then (JDK1.1 at least). There were quite
>a number of Javasoft engineers on that list, so they have been aware of
>it in the past.
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>That said, I'm not sure that they are going to fix it. I think the
>standard answer from them is "use JMF TimeBase" if you want to do
>multimedia.
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