From f0c865555beb7fb079280fb7a177a0fcd677b373 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: UbitUmarov <ajlduarte@sapo.pt>
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2015 11:05:15 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] add a GetTimeStampMS method, this returns a time stamp in
 miliSeconds with the resolution avaiable for StopWatchs. Value in double
 since it can be large (as machine uptime in high resolution ticks)

---
 OpenSim/Framework/Util.cs | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/OpenSim/Framework/Util.cs b/OpenSim/Framework/Util.cs
index 77985bd72f..d1cdaa67c4 100644
--- a/OpenSim/Framework/Util.cs
+++ b/OpenSim/Framework/Util.cs
@@ -140,10 +140,14 @@ namespace OpenSim.Framework
 
         public static readonly int MAX_THREADPOOL_LEVEL = 3;
 
+        public static double TimeStampClockPeriodMS;
+
         static Util()
         {
             LogThreadPool = 0;
             LogOverloads = true;
+            TimeStampClockPeriodMS = 1000.0D / (double)Stopwatch.Frequency;
+            m_log.InfoFormat("[UTIL] TimeStamp clock with period of {0}ms", Math.Round(TimeStampClockPeriodMS,6,MidpointRounding.AwayFromZero));
         }
 
         private static uint nextXferID = 5000;
@@ -2662,6 +2666,13 @@ namespace OpenSim.Framework
             return tcA - tcB;
         }
 
+        // returns a timestamp in ms as double
+        // using the time resolution avaiable to StopWatch
+        public static double GetTimeStampMS()
+        {
+            return (double)Stopwatch.GetTimestamp() * TimeStampClockPeriodMS;
+        }
+
         /// <summary>
         /// Formats a duration (given in milliseconds).
         /// </summary>