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From: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Reading the timer
Message-ID: <2783@atari.UUCP>
Date: 15 Dec 90 00:56:14 GMT
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alex@hpgnd.grenoble.hp.com (Alexis MERMET-GRANDFILLES) writes:
>	Does anybody know if there is a way ( should I say official ? )
>	to read the system time of the 520STE that will give a result
>	more precise than 2 seconds intervals.

There is a system variable that holds the time since the system was
booted, in 1/200ths of a second.  For measuring time spans, this works,
but you still can't get real time-of-day any more precisely than two
seconds.

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