Resolved Help with Making a Clock in Objective-C Command Line Utility

faroZ06 · Aug 23, 2012

I'm playing around in Objective-C with a "foundation tool" (Objective-C command line utility) project in Xcode. At the end of my program, it's supposed to go to a clock that updates itself in the Terminal window. The problem is that it doesn't start on the right time, so it's almost always off by a fraction of a second. I tried to fix that by having it wait until the nanosecond time is a multiple of 10^9, but this ends up just going into infinite loop. What am I doing wrong, and is there a better way (I'm guessing there is)?

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double nano = 1111111111111;
while (fmod(nano, 1000000000) != 0){
nano = [NSDate timeIntervalSinceReferenceDate];
} //This while loop waits for the nanoseconds to be divisible by 10^9.
while (true){
formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[formatter setDateFormat"dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss"];

dateString = [formatter stringFromDate:[NSDate date]];
printf([dateString UTF8String]); printf("\n");
sleep(1); // or usleep(3000000);
system("clear");
}
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gnasher729 · Aug 23, 2012

faroZ06 said: ↑

I'm playing around in Objective-C with a "foundation tool" (Objective-C command line utility) project in Xcode. At the end of my program, it's supposed to go to a clock that updates itself in the Terminal window. The problem is that it doesn't start on the right time, so it's almost always off by a fraction of a second. I tried to fix that by having it wait until the nanosecond time is a multiple of 10^9, but this ends up just going into infinite loop. What am I doing wrong, and is there a better way (I'm guessing there is)?
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[NSDate timeIntervalSinceReferenceDate] measures the time interval in seconds.

And to avoid wasting CPU time, call [NSDate timeIntervalSinceReferenceDate] once, round up to the next second by calling ceil (), then call usleep for waiting the right amount of time.

faroZ06 · Aug 23, 2012

gnasher729 said: ↑

[NSDate timeIntervalSinceReferenceDate] measures the time interval in seconds.

And to avoid wasting CPU time, call [NSDate timeIntervalSinceReferenceDate] once, round up to the next second by calling ceil (), then call usleep for waiting the right amount of time.
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Ah, thanks. Sorry for the noob question.

gnasher729 · Aug 23, 2012

faroZ06 said: ↑

Ah, thanks. Sorry for the noob question.
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Nothing to be sorry about. You posted the code that caused the problem, which means you gave the information that was needed to find the cause of the problem - that puts you far ahead of the average.

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