| From: | Alfonso Ranieri |
| Date: | 24 May 2001 at 08:31:36 |
| Subject: | Re: Timer device |
ronphil@pld.com wrote:
> The "timer" and "wait" algorithm is limited to seconds and
> microseconds so this isn't workable. Is there a way to get a signal
> from the system clock itself or some way to change the resolution of
> the timers to get hours and minuets?
To wait for h hours and m minutes just wait for
h*3600+m*60 seconds. To wait till hh:mm:ss :
- convert the time to a datestamp via ParseDate()
- get the current date via GetDate()
- sub the above
- convert the datestamp to seconds to wait for
Ciao. Alfonso.
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