Programming instructions

Intermec Fingerprint v7.61 – Programmer’s Reference Manual Ed. 7260
Chapter 2 Program Instructions
TICKS
Field of Application Function returning the time, that has passed since the last power
up in the printer, expressed in number of “TICKS" (1 TICK =
0.01 seconds.)
Syntax TICKS
Remarks
TICKS allows you to measure time more exactly than the TIME$ variable,
which cannot handle time units smaller than 1 second.
The TICKS counter is reset to zero at power up.
Example 10 A%=TICKS
20 PRINT A%
RUN
yields for example:
1081287
The time which has passed since the printer was started is 10812.87 seconds,
that is 3 hours 12.87 seconds.