• TheOldNewThing - The ongoing story of seconds on the taskbar

    From R.Wieser@21:1/5 to All on Tue Apr 22 12:15:13 2025
    Hello all,

    On "The Old New Thing" Raymond Chen spke about "The ongoing story of seconds
    on the taskbar" :

    https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250421-00/?p=111095

    My question: does anyone know how to create a once-a-minute timer that will work ?

    Just as in the article I've got a timer used to display the current ime in a minute resolution (no seconds).

    The problem is that when the timer is just a bit longer than a minute the
    clock will skip displaying some minutes.

    When the timer is just short of a minute than at some moment it will fire
    twice in the same minute, and than late in the next minute - making it look like the currently displayed minute is almost two minutes long. :-(

    The only way I know to fix the above problems is to make the timer fire multiple times a minute.

    ... but the above article tells me thats "bad". :-(

    So, the question:

    Does Windows offer something to get a (timer) signal when its clocks minutes advance ?

    Regards,
    Rudy Wieser

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