VB Forum / General 2 / May 2004

Hi,

I wish to get a time stamp (that includes milliseconds) when a certain
event occurs. I am monitoring a serial port for binary data. When a
complete message is processed I want to take a timestamp. I am not
using my timestamp as an indication of when the data was measured as a
timestamp is included in the data I'm dealing withm, I just want to
timestamp my message. I've done a bit of reading and am getting
confused about all the varying opinions on the accuracy of the various
methods of getting the system time. I am not interested in determining
the elapsed time between the events. Which is the more widely adopted
method of obtaining an "accurate" UTC time stamp that includes
milliseconds.

Thanks

Paul