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Re: Strange time() behaviour

• Posted by Hayden McKay <hmck1 at dodo.com.au> Apr 08, 2007
• 502 views

Igor Kachan wrote:
> 
> Leonardo Cecchi wrote:
> 
> > 
> > In the euphoria reference library I read that time() 
> > "Return the number of seconds since some fixed point in the past.".
> > 
> > But, if I execute the following code:
> > 
> > }}}
<eucode>
> > procedure test_time()
> >   atom timer, exit_code
> > 
> >   timer=time()
> >   exit_code=system_exec("sleep 2s", 2)
> >   ? time()-timer
> > end procedure
> > 
> > test_time()
> > </eucode>
{{{

> > 
> > I obtain:
> > 
> > $ exu testtime.e 
> > 0.0002019999999
> > 
> > I think the right result should be a number bigger than 2.
> > Where I'm wrong?
> > I'm working with Euphoria 3.0.2/Linux and the result 
> > is the same with Euphoria SVN.
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Leonardo
> 
> Works OK here, I've got 2.02.
> 
> EU 3.0.2 and EU 2.5 on Linux Mandrake 10.0.
> 
>  From procedure or from top level,
> from ed.ex or from command line - same results,
> I could not reproduce that strange your result.
> 
> Regards,
> Igor Kachan
> kinz at peterlink.ru


I'm running Windows 98se plus;

ex.exe testtime.e ~0.05