gettickcount() function and reverse

[plarts]

Is it possible to find back a date/time from a number coming from
the gettickcount() function ?

[Dan_Bracuk]

As long as you have a starting point to work with, such as tickcount x = date y. Then it's a matter of math.

[Newsgroup_User]

> Is it possible to find back a date/time from a number coming from
> the gettickcount() function ?

Have you read the docs?

http://livedocs.macromedia.com/coldfusion/7/htmldocs/00000500.htm

There seems to be a bit of conflicting info there:
1) Returns: A string representation of the system time, in milliseconds.
2) The value of the counter has no meaning.

My guess would be that (2) is incorrect. I should think that the value is
n milliseconds after a specific date. And it'd be easy enough to worth out
*which* date using dateAdd().

Why do you want to do this?

--
Adam