TimeService.hpp

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 tag: Peter Soetens  Wed Apr 17 16:01:36 CEST 2002  TimeService.h 

                       TimeService.h -  description
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   begin                : Wed April 17 2002
   copyright            : (C) 2002 Peter Soetens
   email                : peter.soetens@mech.kuleuven.ac.be

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#ifndef HEART_BEAT_GENERATOR_HPP
#define HEART_BEAT_GENERATOR_HPP

#include "Time.hpp"

namespace RTT
{

    class TimeService
    {
    public:
        typedef double Seconds;

        typedef long secs;

        typedef long msecs;

        typedef long usecs;

        typedef long long nsecs;

        typedef long long ticks;

    public:
        static TimeService* Instance();

        static bool Release();

        virtual ~TimeService();

        ticks ticksGet() const { return getTicks(); }

        ticks getTicks() const;

        ticks ticksGet( ticks &relativeTime ) const { return getTicks( relativeTime ); }

        ticks getTicks( ticks &relativeTime ) const;

        ticks ticksSince( ticks relativeTime ) const;

        Seconds secondsGet( ticks &relativeTime ) const { return getSeconds(relativeTime); }

        Seconds getSeconds( ticks &relativeTime ) const;

        Seconds secondsSince( ticks relativeTime ) const;

        Seconds secondsChange( Seconds delta );

        void enableSystemClock( bool yes_no );
        
        nsecs getNSecs() const;

        nsecs getNSecs( nsecs &relativeTime ) const;

        static ticks nsecs2ticks( const nsecs m );

        static nsecs ticks2nsecs( const ticks t );

        static const ticks InfiniteTicks;

        static const nsecs InfiniteNSecs;

        static const Seconds InfiniteSeconds;
    protected:

        TimeService();

    private:

        static TimeService* _instance;

        ticks offset;

        bool use_clock;
    };
} // namespace RTT

#endif

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