#  Playtime.py  Copyright (c) Kari Laitinen

#  http://www.naturalprogramming.com

#  2006-05-09  File created.
#  2022-12-27  Converted to Python 3.

#  Note that the 'ticks' value returned by the time.time()
#  function is a floating-point value. In my Windows PC it seems
#  to represent seconds since the beginning of the day 1.1.1970

#  WARNING!  It may be better not to run this program
#  for a time on your computer because the infinite
#  loop of the program consumes quite a lot of processing
#  power, and that may result in that the electronics
#  of your computer gets too hot. In my computer the cooling
#  fan of the processor starts operating immediately when
#  I start executing this program.

from threading import Thread
import time

class ThreadToDisplayTicksAndTime ( Thread )  :

   def __init__( self ) :

      Thread.__init__( self ) 
      self.must_display_ticks_and_time   =  True

   def stop_this_thread( self )  :

      self.must_display_ticks_and_time  =  False


   def run( self )  :

      loop_counter  =  0

      print( "\n loop_counter   current_time_ticks        Readable time" )

      previous_time_ticks  =  time.time()

      while  self.must_display_ticks_and_time  ==  True  :

         loop_counter  +=  1

         current_time_ticks  =  time.time()

         if  ( current_time_ticks  -  previous_time_ticks )  >  5.000  and  \
             ( int( current_time_ticks ) %  5 )  ==  0   :

            print( "\n   %d     %f      %s"  %     \
                   ( loop_counter, current_time_ticks, time.asctime() ), end="" )

            previous_time_ticks  =  current_time_ticks
            loop_counter   =  0


#  The main program begins.

thread_to_display_ticks_and_time  =  ThreadToDisplayTicksAndTime()

print( "\n Press the Enter key to stop the program." )

thread_to_display_ticks_and_time.start()

any_string_from_keyboard  =  input()

thread_to_display_ticks_and_time.stop_this_thread()