-------- In message <1355873265.1198.183.camel_at_revolution.hippie.lan>, Ian Lepore writes : >On Tue, 2012-12-18 at 23:58 +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote: >I'm not so sure about the 2^k precision. You speak of seconds, but I >would be worrying about sub-second precision in my work. It is a bad idea, and it is physically pointless, given the stabilities of the timebases available for computers in general. Please just take my word as a time-nut, and use a 32.32 binary format in seconds (see previous email) and be done with it. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk_at_FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.Received on Wed Dec 19 2012 - 08:54:17 UTC
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