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01/01/2018 14:43:30
 
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Title:
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP2
OS:
Windows 10
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01656863
Message ID:
01656873
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54
>I am sure this has been addressed before. But I would appreciate some quick help.
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>I am performing some performance testing and have discovered that the Seconds() function may not be actuate. I discovered a UDF based on the SYS(2015), but I question its return. I would like to use the WinAPI GetTickCount(), but it only returns True, no tick count.
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>Any other suggestions?

This is just my frustration with FoxPro, but in the late 1990s when I worked at MS as a contractor in the FoxPro group I put in an Enhancement Request to have a new DateTime data type that included milliseconds.

I talked to Calvin H. about it and he told me and it is well known that the VFP DateTime data type takes 8 bytes and that it certainly could contain milliseconds.

A few years later I was working at a different shop and I needed to grab some data from SQL Server using VFP based on an exact DateTime value. Well, our SQL Server DBA was a real jerk and he was making a ton of money and I told him that VFP could easily pull this data. Anyway, because the VFP DateTime doesn't have milliseconds I failed miserably.

I immediately put in another ER to Microsoft, but sadly as we all know they never did anything about it.
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