Actionscript 3 :: Synchronize Timer Event To Actual Time?
Apr 19, 2010
I plan to use a timer event to fire every second (for a clock application).
I may be wrong, but I assume that there will probably be a (very slight) sync issue with the actual system time. For example the timer event might fire when the actual system time milliseconds are at 500 instead of 0 (meaning the seconds will be partially 'out of phase' if you will).
Is there a way to either synchronize the timer event to the real time or get some kind of system time event to fire when an second ticks in AS3?
Also if I set a Timer to fire every 1000 milliseconds, is that guaranteed or can there be some offset based on the application load?
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Sep 19, 2009
I just want to make a timer counting down to an event and I found this one:
Code:
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var endDate:Date = new Date(2009,9,5);
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//The time being set with milliseconds(1000 milliseconds = 1 second)
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which works good enough for me, but the problem is that I need this timer to count the same time no matter in which time zone are you, but unfortunately this isn't the case.
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Dec 3, 2009
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Sep 3, 2010
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Feb 18, 2010
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Mar 6, 2012
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Jun 14, 2011
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I'm working on updating a quiz game my employer has. One problem I encountered was that the timer that runs during the "exam" mode of the game wouldn't work, so I found a work around by replacing it with a timer that did. All that it is, is a dynamic text box on the first frame of the questions, with the following script embedded in the start button to make it run:
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Mar 11, 2011
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