On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 6:07 PM, spir <denis.s...@free.fr> wrote:

> I am confused here. That's what I first thought (there _must_ be a way to get 
> time more precise that seconds!). But on my system (ubuntu 9.10) I cannot 
> find the proper manner to use these system calls. Even from the command-line 
> directly. Certainly missing something _really_ obvious.

I think you have to call them from C or some other language that can
access the system calls.

>> So only seconds need to be supported for ANSI compliance.
>
> Right. This is precisely the reason why some languages (eg lua) don't provide 
> any way to get time in ms or us. And also the source of my original post on 
> the topic.

Some solutions for Lua here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/463101/lua-current-time-in-milliseconds

Kent
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