Sleep till 2 minutes on clock pass.

[socap]

Sleep(2 * 59.1 * 1000)

Next

I can't make next every 2 minutes precisely

Help please, instead of this sleep, sleep it sleeps for two minutes of earth time.

I mean it should sleep till 2 minutes on clock pass.

[Jos]

Test with @Min.

[kylomas]

socap,

This is the routine that I use.

#include <date.au3>

Local $stime = _nowcalc(), $i = 0

While $i < 2
    Sleep(1000) ; sleep for a sec
    $i  = _datediff('n',$stime,_nowcalc())
wend

Good Luck!

kylomas

[ripdad]

Sleep((60000 * 2) - (@SEC * 1000))

[autoitter]

I've once made a clock that would update the display every second. I used sleep this way:

While True
    UpdateDisplay()
    ; Wait until next second pass
    Sleep(1000-@MSEC)
WEnd

[bogQ]

or maybe something more complicated currently set to react on every second (func taken from monoceres example on 'Sleep down to 100 Nano seconds')

but as Jos pointed @Min is probably what OP need

$hDll=DllOpen("ntdll.dll")
$hStruct=DllStructCreate("int64 time;")
$s = @SEC
Do
    DllStructSetData($hStruct,"time",-1*(1*10))
    DllCall($hDll,"dword","ZwDelayExecution","int",0,"ptr",DllStructGetPtr($hStruct))
Until $s <> @SEC
$a = TimerInit()
For $x = 1 To 100
    Do
        DllStructSetData($hStruct,"time",-1*(1*10))
        DllCall($hDll,"dword","ZwDelayExecution","int",0,"ptr",DllStructGetPtr($hStruct))
        $t = TimerDiff($a)
    Until $t > 1000*$x
    ConsoleWrite($t&' Sec = '&@SEC&@CRLF)
Next
DllClose($hDll)

Edited December 31, 2011 by bogQ

[kylomas]

@ripdad,

is

Sleep((60000 * 2) - (@SEC * 1000))

the same as

sleep(120-@sec)

neither of which will work in a loop unless you use a variable that is decreased with each iteration.

@jos,

I see @min used frequently. Do you not get less than 1 full minute though, depending on when the @min macro is invoked? And there is the problem of crossing an hour boundry.

Just my 2 cents, gentlemen.

Happy New Year,

kylomas

[ripdad]

Well, I suppose it's a matter of interpretation of the OP, which I could have misinterpreted.

It appears, with the given information of the OP, that he wants to pause a For Loop for 2 minutes

to the top of that 2 minutes (real clock time), which would be 2:00, for instance.

I could be wrong.

This...

Sleep((60000 * 2) - (@SEC * 1000))

Sleeps for 2 minutes minus the spent clock seconds of that 2 minutes.

Which becomes apparent at 2:00.

and this ...

Sleep(120-@sec)

Sleeps for 120 milliseconds minus the spent clock seconds?

Max number for @SEC is 59. Some additional math would be needed, I think.

And a Happy New Year to you too and to all the AutoIt Community!

Edited January 1, 2012 by ripdad

[kylomas]

ripdad,

You are right, my mistake!

kylomas