TimerTask drift away

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Mitschu - 28 Apr 2008 10:20 GMT

Hi
I use a TimerTask which is scheduled to run every minute at seconde 40
eg. 11:15:40 and next 11:16:40.
After a day the task is running appr. 4-5 secondes later. There are
about 10 different TimerTasks running.
Is there a way to come absolute punctual?

Thanks
Michael

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Philipp - 28 Apr 2008 11:01 GMT

> Hi
> I use a TimerTask which is scheduled to run every minute at seconde 40
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> Thanks
> Michael

Use Timer.scheduleAtFixedRate() instead of Timer.schedule().

HTH
Phil

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Roedy Green - 28 Apr 2008 12:15 GMT

On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:20:48 -0700 (PDT), Mitschu
<michael.arnold@sisag.ch> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone
who said :

>Is there a way to come absolute punctual?

You need to resynch your clock with an atomic clock timeserver
periodically. If Windows is not doing it, try setclock at
http://mindprod.com/webstart/setclock.html

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