[fpc-pascal] Very vague gettickcount64 description?
Michael Van Canneyt
michael at freepascal.org
Sun Sep 8 18:23:15 CEST 2019
On Sun, 8 Sep 2019, Luca Olivetti wrote:
> El 8/9/19 a les 13:17, Yuriy Sydorov ha escrit:
>
>> if GetTickCount - FStartTime > 3000 then ;
>
> I actually use
>
> if DWORD(GetTickCount-FStartTime) > 3000 then
>
> the former is affected by the rollback after 49 days, the latter isn't.
>
>
>>
>> vs
>>
>> if Now - FStartTime > 3/SecsPerDay then ;
>
> Besides, Now could go backwards (if system time is adjusted), while
> GetTickCount cannot
It can if the fallback is used.
Michael.
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