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Re: Observing Time


  • Subject: Re: Observing Time
  • From: Rick Mann <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 19:08:12 -0700

On Jul 25, 2013, at 18:52 , email@hidden wrote:

> I'm getting about a half second lag behind the system clock.
> This is actually reasonable for my purposes, but I wonder if I'm missing something that might be more in sync.

You can do this using NSTimers, but you need to make sure you adjust for the current fraction of a second. That is, if you simply set up a scheduled timer with a one-second interval, you'll get called every second, but it won't necessarily be at the instant the wall clock second ticks over.

So, thing to do is to create a repeating timer with a fire date rounded to the next second and a one-second interval. Something like this (written off-the-cuff, so might need some tweaking):

    CFAbsoluteTime fireDateAbs = CFAbsoluteTimeGetCurrent();
    fireDateAbs = trunc(fireDateAbs + 0.5);			//	Round to the next second
    NSDate* fireDate = [NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSinceReferenceDate: fireDateAbs];
    mTimer = [[NSTimer alloc] initWithFireDate: fireDate interval: 1.0 target: self selector: @selector(update:) userInfo: nil repeats: true];
    [[NSRunLoop currentRunLoop] addTimer: mTimer forMode: NSRunLoopCommonModes];


--
Rick




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