Update TextView Every Second

Add following code in your onCreate() method: Thread thread = new Thread() { @Override public void run() { try { while (!thread.isInterrupted()) { Thread.sleep(1000); runOnUiThread(new Runnable() { @Override public void run() { // update TextView here! } }); } } catch (InterruptedException e) { } } }; thread.start(); This code starts an thread which sleeps … Read more

How to sync time on host wake-up within VirtualBox?

The documentation lacks some details here. What VirtualBox does every 10 seconds is just slight adjustement (something like 0.005 seconds). Only when the time difference reaches a threshold (20 minutes by default) a “real” resync is done. You can reduce the thresold (i.e. to 10 seconds) with the following command: VBoxManage guestproperty set <vm-name> “/VirtualBox/GuestAdd/VBoxService/–timesync-set-threshold” … Read more

How do I calculate the elapsed time of an event in Java? [duplicate]

I would avoid using System.currentTimeMillis() for measuring elapsed time. currentTimeMillis() returns the ‘wall-clock’ time, which may change (eg: daylight savings, admin user changing the clock) and skew your interval measurements. System.nanoTime(), on the other hand, returns the number of nanoseconds since ‘some reference point’ (eg, JVM start up), and would therefore not be susceptible to … Read more

How do I get monotonic time durations in python?

That function is simple enough that you can use ctypes to access it: #!/usr/bin/env python __all__ = [“monotonic_time”] import ctypes, os CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW = 4 # see <linux/time.h> class timespec(ctypes.Structure): _fields_ = [ (‘tv_sec’, ctypes.c_long), (‘tv_nsec’, ctypes.c_long) ] librt = ctypes.CDLL(‘librt.so.1’, use_errno=True) clock_gettime = librt.clock_gettime clock_gettime.argtypes = [ctypes.c_int, ctypes.POINTER(timespec)] def monotonic_time(): t = timespec() if clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW … Read more