Well, uh, yeah ...

I appreciate you taking the time to look at my questions, but it doesn't
really say anything about what I am asking.

Wall time (or locally observed time, either of which is a better choice
of words than "real-time" in this case) could simply be a particular
number of ticks rounded to seconds and that value is initialized from
some sort of real-time clock hardware when the Palm device is powered
up.  Or, wall time could be directly queries to the real-time clock
hardware.

If the former is the case, then there is always a direct relationship
between ticks and seconds.  If the latter is the case, then there is an
opportunity for drift to creep in and there might not always be a known
relationship between ticks and seconds.

If the definition of the TimGetSeconds() and TimGetTicks() functions
gave some guidance here, then I could just trust that each
implementation (each version of PalmOS) did the right thing, but it
doesn't.  Is this something that Palm deliberately left open or just an
omission?

alan

---Original Message---
From: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Palm Developer Forum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 15:11:17 -0700 
Subject: RE: ticks time vs. secs time

The tick clock stops while the device is "off", whereas the real-time
clock
obviously keeps going.




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