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Subject: Re: GNAT.Sockets: Timeval_Duration is in milliseconds?
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> *If* a Timeval_Duration was in units of milliseconds you would be
>  completely right. But it is in seconds, just as it should be.
  So regardless of where it occurs in the program, the statement
T2 := T1 + Duration'(1.0);
will result in T2 being one second later than T1 - it will never
make T2 one millisecond later than T1.
That's a relief.