It is almost never safe to assume your code is perfect

[J. Landman Gay]

On 10/5/13 9:30 PM, Kay C Lan wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 10:48 PM, Geoff Canyon <gcanyon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>> The switch to send in (1 - (the long seconds mod 1)) seconds was a
>> very unexpected and exceedingly clever hack.
>>
>
> Sorry, I still don't get it.
>
> In the msg box:
>
> the long seconds mod 1
>
> always returns 0 --seems right.

I get zero and the fraction, for example: 0.034014

So the clock uses that fraction to account for script time, and sends 
the next update exactly on the whole second.

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