Skipped Turns ... what to know about?

Hi mates. I'm quite new to the 'skipped turn' behavior and would appreciate a little heads up.

I just put this on my robot:

public void onStatus(..)
{
    start = System.nanoTime();
}

public run()
{
     .....
     while(true)
     {
           .....
           System.out.format("[%d] %d \n",getTime(),System.nanoTime() - start);
           excecute();
     }
}

This is what i get and i'm not sure how to interpret it:

[203] 7260000 
[204] 4098000 
SYSTEM: TassieDevil* (1) skipped turn 205
SYSTEM: TassieDevil* (1) skipped turn 206
[205] 7443000 
SYSTEM: TassieDevil* (1) skipped turn 207
[206] 8137000 
SYSTEM: TassieDevil* (1) skipped turn 208
[207] 8656000 
[208] 7771000 
[209] 4019000 
SYSTEM: TassieDevil* (1) skipped turn 210
SYSTEM: TassieDevil* (1) skipped turn 211
[210] 7488000 

To me it looks like that the turn counter is not incremented on skipped turns and the next turn after the skipped gets the time++. Normally this would have no influence on my bot, but i send some stats to another team bot who needs to know when the stats are gathered. I don't believe that it works like this and i'm very sure i missing out some here. My thought was that if i skip a turn it shouldn't reach the printout line. Is there a way to get the time i can spend until i get a skipped turn?

thanks in advance and take care

I think I understand what's going on here. When you go over your time limit for a turn, you skip the next one or more turns. But this probably means that none of the events are fired or anything else when you call execute(), and the while loop still runs.

If you think about what code is actually executing from your bot, there's the main while loop, and whenever you call execute, Robocode processes the setXXX stuff you've called and fires all your events. There's no way really for Robocode to make your main while loop skip ahead a couple of iterations. But presumably, no events are being fired for that tick, and any "actions" you take in the while loop are not happening when you call execute().

Hmm, actually, you're right, I'm still confused. Maybe if you also print the time from onScannedRobot we could see more clearly what's going on? Eg, maybe after turn 209, it decides you skip 2 turns and prints about them, but the while loop still happens for those turns, but execute() does nothing for the next 2 calls to it.