From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Uptime and entropy in DOS
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On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, Damian Yerrick wrote:

> >Did you try `uclock' or `gettiomeofday'?  It's in the FAQ (section 22.23).
> 
> uclock() won't work because it measures uptime of the current process,

That's because it stores the time it measures on the first call and
then subtracts it from subsequent readings.  But you could take the
source of `uclock' and modify it to not subtract that first reading.
Then you'll get what you want.