Milliseconds???

[BigDaddyO]

Alright,

I am trying to use the timer start and my brain hurts... Could anyone tell me how many milliseconds in an hour.

Thanks,

Mike

[HelloIDistance]

3600000

[CyberSlug]

This might help in the future:

60 minutes     60 seconds     1000 millisecs
1 hour  x  ----------  x  ----------  x  --------------   =  3600000 millisecs
               hour          minute          second

Edit: Missed a zero

Edited June 10, 2004 by CyberSlug

[BigDaddyO]

3600000

Thats what I thought. Apparently I must not understand the TimerStart than.

I want a 'do until' to loop until the timer hits an hour "3,600,000" but it wouldn't work. So I put a msgbox in the loop to display the Timer info every 1 second. the message box is listing an item that is about 44 billion, What am I not understanding here? what shold I list the until $Timer = "HOUR"

do
$Time = TimerStart()
sleep(1000)
msgbox(0, "Timer", "It's been " & $Time)
until $Time = 3600000

Mike

Edited June 10, 2004 by MikeOsdx

[SlimShady]

You can make a script sleep for an hour this way:

Sleep(60 * 60 * 1000)

[CyberSlug]

Look closely at the docs for TimerStop--it's somewhat strange.

$start = TimerStart()
Do
  sleep(100)
Until TimerStop($start) > 3600000

[BigDaddyO]

Look closely at the docs for TimerStop--it's somewhat strange.

$start = TimerStart()
Do
  sleep(100)
Until TimerStop($start) > 3600000

That works,

it is weird having to put the TimerStop in there but I guess I will just have to blindly accept that.

thanks,

Mike

[Jon]

I should have called it TimerDiff() or something. Never mind.

[pekster]

That works,

it is weird having to put the TimerStop in there but I guess I will just have to blindly accept that.

If it helps you understand at all, when you call TimerStart it does not start at 0. Because of this, you need to call call TimerStop and referance the number you got back from TimerStart. This will then return the difference in time between the start time, and the current system time.

[BigDaddyO]

If it helps you understand at all, when you call TimerStart it does not start at 0. Because of this, you need to call call TimerStop and referance the number you got back from TimerStart. This will then return the difference in time between the start time, and the current system time. Ahh, That makes perfect sence now. Thanks... That explaines the crazy numbers I was getting when I was sending the timer output to a mesagebox.

Mike

[Guest Guest_Lor20]

I did some testing - the timerstart function moves on for every cpu "cycle" (no idea what the correct terminus is here - so soince i got a 3 GHz Cpu that increases by 3,000,000,000 every second. The number is actually the number of cycles your CPU has gone through since you switched it on the last time. - so if you divide it by ur cppu frequency you get your uptime in seconds.

Lor20