On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Keith Packard wrote:
>
> Around 23 o'clock on Nov 1, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
>
> > So that means that it's not possible to just update the
> > currentTime. You can get the current system time, but you can't
> > update currentTime without processing events. OK.
>
> Right. Until R2 (R3?) the only way server time got updated was from
> events; we changed that so that property notify events were more
> reasonable, but it took quite a while to ensure that such updates didn't
> accidentally make server time run backwards.
>
> If you've got a request that needs to update current time, you can use
> UpdateCurrentTime before processing anything; events will get delivered
> and time will be reasonably current.
>
> Do you have a reason to make current time reliably more accurate than the
> beginning of the current request?
>
Not the currentTime field. I need more reliable current time but
I can use GetTimeInMillis and do my own month accounting. I discovered
that you can't call UpdateCurrentTime() any place you like. If you
do it in the pointer/viewport path you can get a recursion.
Mark.
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