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The dictionary and my understanding are limited to date time id name file, but please, what on earth is a long second - jokes welcome.

Chris, if you have read the dictionary entry on seconds, you should have not been able to wait to try these two in the message box:

answer the seconds
answer the long seconds.

This would lead you to thinking about such things as the "ticks" and the "milliseconds".

Craig

When you look up the "seconds" function in the Dictionary, you'll find this note relating to the "long" option:

If the long seconds form is used, the seconds function returns a positive number with up to six digits after the decimal point.
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The long seconds form returns a value with a precision to a millionth of a second. However, this value is not normally accurate past the third decimal place because of processor delays.

Guys I am truly sorry. You have no idea how I have set up camp inside that dictionary over the last two days, and I "assumed" I knew what a second was, obviously and so when I saw this my attention was drawn only to looking up long, and then working it out and not thinking that I should look up seconds again. Thankyou.

Thanks for noting what you were searching for. While it's possible to find "long seconds" when looking for "seconds", it would be nice if the entry for the "long" keyword also included at least a reference to the "seconds" function - I just submitted a request for that:
http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=11483

Oh, ok then, that's nice.