On Aug 31, 2006, at 2:16 PM, Terry Ford wrote:
There might be something else to consider. REALbasic may use a
double to represent it but I have a strong feeling that the OS's
storage of this data may be different. Take the Date Class for
example. On Mac, the Total seconds are stored as an Uint32. This
limits the Date to 2034 as far as I know. Also, on Win32,
Microseconds is only resolved to milliseconds.
Perhaps this "Rollover" effect is something to consider as RS
probably wouldn't mention it if it wasn't attainable.
That is exactly why I went looking.
It wasn't a problem when I was doing games... if the Microseconds
rolled over, it would just force an early frame update. But now I am
doing time measurement stuff, and I needed greater precision than
Seconds.
Now a rollover for Ticks() is certainly plausible (1/60th of a
second). The value returned by REALbasic is only stored in an
Integer (signed), and so by my calculation it should rollover after
414 days.
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