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Subject: Re: boot time, process start time, and NOW time
From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
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On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 21:54, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> Albert Cahalan wrote:

> While on the subject of time, is it possible to get a monotonic timer 
> with 1ms or better resolution?

mplayer uses /dev/rtc for this.  Any reason why it won't work for you?

Lee