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Date:	Mon, 1 Mar 2004 12:51:00 -0600 (CST)
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On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, Tim Prince wrote:

> The implementation used by cygwin doesn't set the fractional seconds
> fields, so you must fall back on the Windows API for milliseconds.
>
and
> The cygwin specific code in the g77 date_and_time() source code shows use
> of the Windows API call to compensate for this lack in cygwin
> gettimeofday().
>
I think your information may be out-of-date.  gettimeofday()
appears to currently have approximately one to two millisecond resolution
on XP.  What do you see?

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