Re: get-real-time bug?

I haven't seen  a reply to this yet, so I'll put my two cents in, and 
the real experts can correct me if I'm wrong.

"get-real-time" returns an integer, or at least an integral value.  The 
manual says:

get-real-time
	Returns the number of seconds since January 1st, 1970 with microsecond 
accuracy.

which could imply a float return.  However, the "microsecond accuracy" 
only means that it will flip to the next integer with million to one 
accuracy.  I'm not sure what that means as far as accuracy over longer 
durations, and obviously your computer would have to be synched to 
world time to at least that accuracy to get absolute time (but hey, 
we're running simulations, no?).

Hope that helps,
Jim Grimes


On Monday, May 23, 2005, at 09:35  AM, idevx wrote:

> I'm not sure if this is a problem somewhere in my
> code, but while "get-time" seems to update itself
> properly, "get-real-time" seems to update the returned
> value only once a second.
>
> Tnx
> Ignacio
>
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