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From: hardt@linc.cis.upenn.edu (Dan Hardt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: getting the time
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Date: 18 Nov 89 03:33:30 GMT
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A friend needs to read the time for a real-time application.
We tried using some Microsoft C functions for reading the
clock.  The functions returned the time down to the hundredth
of a second -- but they don't seem to notice any change in the
time less than 5/100 of a second or so.  If we have a loop which
continually checks the time, its values are ,eg, 
        0,0,0,0,5,5,5,5,5,11,11,11,etc
Why is this?  Any way to get a more fine-grained access to the time?