>>If I execute seconds() twice and I observe an elapsed time of 4.345 seconds, what is the chance that 4.345 seconds has actually elapsed? Is seconds accurate down to a millisecond?
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>No. Under NT 4.0 or later a resolution is 10 milliseconds. IIRC, it can be changed to 1 millisecond with some WIn API call.

So why does it return a value with three decimal places?