Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 11:08:36 01/13/00
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On January 13, 2000 at 14:00:10, Christophe Theron wrote: >Be careful with milliseconds on a PC running Windows 9x. Actually the PC timer >has not changed since prehistory, and it is still producing interrupts at >18.2Hz. That means that the resolution of time of day under Windows 9x is more >than 50 milliseconds! > >Under Windows NT I remember this is 10ms. Much better, but stil not accurate to >the millisecond. > >I hope this helps. Even if it's not 100% accurate, you should still be able to get a good random number seed from it, which is the important part. :)
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