.NET System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch issue (returns values too low)

Question

On my computer the Stopwatch is returning values way too low. For example, 200 ms when I specified Thread.Sleep(1000). The program is supposed to wait 1 second. I a

Answer 1

I believe you'll find the answer here: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/netfxbcl/thread/eec73d6e-f597-4342-be48-5d2ce30202f0/

but for more detail and explanation see also: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163996.aspx http://stackoverflow.com/questions/394020/stopwatch-accuracy http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.diagnostics.stopwatch.aspx