I found a DLL that gets time in a better way than mirc. At least back in 2006 when the DLL was made. Granted I notice a difference between the DLL and $ticks

http://www.mircscripts.org/comments.php?cid=2972

try this, with the time.dll in the mirc dir
Code:
//clear | echo -a $ticks $dll(time.dll,GetTime,.) | .timer -m 1 10 echo -a $!ticks $!dll(time.dll,GetTime,.)


time.dll seems to give better time than $ticks, but please remember there will be inconsistencies with the timer etc.

$ticks also seems to be +200 from what time.dll returns, i wouldn't know why though.

disclaimer:
These are just the results I got on my pc with mirc 7.1. Any different results should be expected. (simply, just don't flame me or anything, lol)