How to terminate the function that runs every n seconds

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Jan 14 11:54:10 EST 2015


On 14/01/2015 16:33, Dave Angel wrote:
>
> Note that neither Timer nor sleep makes any promises about how
> accurately it matches the requested time.
>

Reminds me of working on Telematics S200/300/4000/5000 telecomms kit in 
the early 90s where the timers were mains based, so a one hour timer 
would go off at about one hour, 30 seconds.  Programming becomes such 
fun working around such things :)

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Mark Lawrence




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