Y'know...every now and then on one of these boards, you read a post that is so clear -- is so lucidly written -- that you just want to sit back and clap.
This, IMHO is one of those posts! Way to go, Jonatan! __Birm | -----Original Message----- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jonatan | Fernstad | Sent: Sunday, 06 June, 2004 15:54 | To: Palm Developer Forum | Subject: Re: TimGetTicks and Zire 21 | | [snip] | | Actually your Zire 21 is not defective, it will show the same thing on all | omap OS 5 devices. This is because of how the tick count is implemented, | using the 32 kHz, or rather 32.768 kHz, oscillator. | | The OS tick count is incremented each time a certain hardware register | reaches zero. It is then reset to 327 and starts counting down to zero | again, and so on. | | When using TimGetTicks on am omap device 100 ticks will actually | be slightly | less than one second, to be more exact 100 ticks is 327/327.68 = 0.9979248 | seconds. | | 10 minutes equals 600 seconds which on the omap devices is 600 * 327 / | 327.68 = 598.75488 'real' seconds. This explains your missing second, or | rather 1.25 seconds. :) | | Jonatan | www.clievideo.com | | -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
