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From: chen-holly@CS.Yale.EDU (Holly Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Turbo Pascal 5.0 and GetTime
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Date: 15 Dec 88 20:57:33 GMT
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I'm running a psychology experiment in which I time people's responses.  I
used SetTime and GetTime in Turbo Pascal 5.0 to time the subjects.  Although
the manual suggests that the timing is good to the hundredth of a second, it
appears that the timing is not this accurate.  The system does not appear to
increment the hundredths of a second at even intervals.  Can anybody explain
to me why the system clock seems to time inaccurately?  Does anybody know a
good way to time people with this kind of accuracy?

						- Holly