counting time

[Dio]

would there be a way to count how much time passed at any given moment? or do some something when a certain reallife time had been reached? thanks

[adosorken]

Well, that's gotta be the most ambiguous question I've seen asked in years.

[Dio]

me no understand...are you calling me gay?
am i being to vauge with the question or not clear enough?

[adosorken]

am·big·u·ous Audio pronunciation of "ambiguous" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (m-bgy-s)
adj.

1. Open to more than one interpretation: an ambiguous reply.
2. Doubtful or uncertain: “The theatrical status of her frequently derided but constantly revived plays remained ambiguous” (Frank Rich).

[Sterling Christensen]

Good grief adosorken, it wasn't that ambiguous.

Try the TIME$ and TIMER functions.

[Z!re]

Oh come on Sodapop, you understood him

Code:

t! = Timer+2 'Set the timer
Do

If Timer >= t! Then
Print "2 seconds have passed."
t! = Timer+2    'reset timer
End If
Loop while inkey$ = ""

[Dio]

have you ever seen that little cartoon on saturday night live called "the ambiguously gay duo" i guess that's the first thing i thought of.
z!re, i ment more like, starting a stopwatch timeing someone doing something, stoping it and then recording the time it took. kinda like that

[Z!re]

Code:

startTime! = Timer
For a& = 0 To 100000
Next
EndTime! = Timer

Print "It took:";EndTime!-StartTime!;"seconds to complete the FOR/NEXT"

Although, if that code runs past midnight (starts pre midnight, ends after midnight) You'll get some nice errors.

TIMER is reset to 0 at midnight, and then count the seconds since midnight, with roughly millisecond accuracy (VERY rough)

[Dio]

sweet, thanks!