Re: Timers: absolute vs relative
"Tim Bradshaw (as tfb at tfeb dot org)" <[email protected]> Mon, 27 Jul 2026 11:30:56 +0100
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--Apple-Mail=_D5006E4C-B813-4910-9C64-26E697452891 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On 27 Jul 2026, at 10:57, Marco Antoniotti (as marco dot antoniotti at = unimib dot it) <[email protected]> wrote: >=20 > While the "relative" form is rather clear and intuitive (get the = current time schedule to timer x seconds later), I am a bit at a loss = for the absolute version. How exactly do you get the "start of the = program"? Presumably the use of this is "Application starts ... things happen = which you don't know how long they take and now you want to have = something happen at some known time after application start."= --Apple-Mail=_D5006E4C-B813-4910-9C64-26E697452891 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii <html aria-label=3D"message body"><head><meta http-equiv=3D"content-type" = content=3D"text/html; charset=3Dus-ascii"></head><body = style=3D"overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = line-break: after-white-space;">On 27 Jul 2026, at 10:57, Marco = Antoniotti (as marco dot antoniotti at unimib dot it) = <[email protected]> wrote:<br><div><blockquote = type=3D"cite"><br class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta = charset=3D"UTF-8"><span style=3D"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: = Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: = normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; = text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: = normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; = text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">While = the "relative" form is rather clear and intuitive (get the current time = schedule to timer x seconds later), I am a bit at a loss for the = absolute version. How exactly do you get the "start of the = program"?</span></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Presumably the use of = this is "Application starts ... things happen which you don't know how = long they take and now you want to have something happen at some known = time after application start."</div></body></html>= --Apple-Mail=_D5006E4C-B813-4910-9C64-26E697452891-- _______________________________________________ Lisp Hug - the mailing list for LispWorks users [email protected] http://www.lispworks.com/support/lisp-hug.html