Re: Hardware Clock

FROM : Damien Bobillot
DATE : Sat Jul 08 00:17:36 2006

Gerriet M. Denkmann wrote :

> How can I read the hardware clock?
> (Not the system clock as in NSDate or gettimeofday, but the thing 
> which keeps the time when the computer is sleeping or turned off).


NSDate makes internally a call to gettimeofday. gettimeofday is a 
system call that read the hardware clock. It's far from sufficient in 
most cases. If you have a very specific need that is not meet by 
gettimeofday, explain it : otherwise nobody will be able to answer you.

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Damien Bobillot