> Because modern operating systems can stay running for so long, its > possible for the machines internal counters to roll over. This > means that if you are using this function to determine how much time > has elapsed between two events, you may encounter a case where it > appears that the stop time is prior to the start time.
I don't know what OS counters the Ticks functions use but if on windows they use the GetTickCount function, that rolls over every 49.7 days <http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wcecoreos5/html/wce50lrfGetTickCount.asp> Apart from checking for a negative time increase, I don't worry about it much. -- Steve Garman Using REALbasic 2006r2 Professional on Windows XP Pro _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
