Thanks a lot guys, your replies have been very helpful!
The reason I need milliseconds is I'm using the timestamp as a way of
uniquely identifying the Palm.  So if several applications are installed on
different Palms at the same time it would be highly improbable that they
would have the same ID.  But if it were only accurate to seconds there could
be chance right?

"Steve Sabram" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> The best you can do is to timestamp down to a 10 ms period using the
PalmOS.  The function TimGetTicks() is what you need..  There
> have been various articles describing how to get finer resolution but that
comes to addressing hardware specific on a device.
>
> Steve
>
> Denis Chai wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know if the Palm keeps track of time accurate to the
> > millisecond?  I'm trying to use timestamps in my application, and would
like
> > it to be accurate to the millisecond.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Denis.
> >
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