[racket] querying the machine's system time...

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Sat Jun 16 00:06:37 EDT 2012

Use `current-inexact-millseconds' (and divide by 1000) instead of
`current-seconds'.

At Sat, 16 Jun 2012 06:03:30 +0200, Rüdiger Asche wrote:
> I need a millisecond granularity though (or at least 100 ms) - 
> GetSystemTime() provides that...
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Matthew Flatt" <mflatt at cs.utah.edu>
> To: "Rüdiger Asche" <rac at ruediger-asche.de>
> Cc: <users at racket-lang.org>
> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2012 10:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [racket] querying the machine's system time...
> 
> 
> I think you want `current-seconds' and `seconds->date' (where the
> latter lets you pick local or UTC).
> 
> At Fri, 15 Jun 2012 18:01:31 +0200, Rüdiger Asche wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I need to compare time events in my Racket application against output from 
> > a
> > third-party application that most probably uses GetsystemTime() or
> > GetLocalTime() for its time stamps, so I need to access those functions as 
> > well
> > (or other functions that contain the same information).
> >
> > How do I do that? The docs don't yield anything in that vicinity.
> >
> > Thanks!
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