Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!cg-atla!fredex
From: fredex@cg-atla.UUCP (Fred Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: getting the time
Message-ID: <8072@cg-atla.UUCP>
Date: 19 Nov 89 20:34:09 GMT
References: <17118@netnews.upenn.edu>
Reply-To: fredex@cg-atla.UUCP (Fred Smith)
Organization: Agfa Compugraphic Division
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In article <17118@netnews.upenn.edu> hardt@linc.cis.upenn.edu (Dan Hardt) writes:
>                                         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?



This is because on standard PC (and clone) hardware the clock ticks 18.2
times per second, which is close to 55 milliseconds per tick. There are
techniques that can be used to reprogram the hardware so that the clock
will tick more often. There was a program came over the new within the
last month or so which illustrated how to do this.

Fred