New question about DELAY

[vefatica]

Rex said:

DELAY - Added support for delays up to 585 million years (requires Vista or later).

I figure that's about the largest FILETIME value or the largest 64-bit unsigned number of 100-nanoseconds. I'm just curious ... does Vista+ have a feature that allows this and is missing in earlier versions of Windows?

 

[rconn]

Rex said:

DELAY - Added support for delays up to 585 million years (requires Vista or later).

I figure that's about the largest FILETIME value or the largest 64-bit unsigned number of 100-nanoseconds. I'm just curious ... does Vista+ have a feature that allows this and is missing in earlier versions of Windows?

Yes

 

[vefatica]

On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 20:57:03 -0400, rconn <> wrote:

|---Quote (Originally by vefatica)---
|Rex said:
|
|DELAY - Added support for delays up to 585 million years (requires Vista or later).
|
|I figure that's about the largest FILETIME value or the largest 64-bit unsigned number of 100-nanoseconds. I'm just curious ... does Vista+ have a feature that allows this and is missing in earlier versions of Windows?
|---End Quote---
|
|Yes

GetTickCount64()?

My calculation was off. 585,000,000 years is more like the max for a 64-bit
tick counter (millisecs).