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Author vstinner
Recipients amaury.forgeotdarc, belopolsky, rosslagerwall, vstinner
Date 2012-01-24.11:22:53
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> GetSystemTimeAsFileTime() represent durations as multiple of 100ns, unfortunately its value is only updated every 15ms or so.  Precision is not accuracy...

It is possible to improve the accuracy of this clock using the
undocumented NtSetTimerResolution() function:
http://undocumented.ntinternals.net/UserMode/Undocumented%20Functions/Time/NtSetTimerResolution.html

There are applications using this undocumented function. For example:
http://www.lucashale.com/timer-resolution/

See also the timeBeginPeriod() function:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms713413%28VS.85%29.aspx

The user may have a special hardware (and its driver) or a special
softwared (ntpd?) with a better accuracy.
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