On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 1:56 AM, Jeffrey Sarnoff <jeffrey.sarn...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thursday, November 24, 2016 at 11:30:36 PM UTC-5, Jeffrey Sarnoff wrote: >> The help says "Get the time in nanoseconds. The time corresponding to 0 is >> undefined, and wraps every 5.8 years." I want to know the largest UInt64 >> value that time_ns() can return: the (nonzero) value which would be followed >> by 0x01%UInt64. > > Doing the math results in 0x028a4486a830c000 (5.8 years of nanoseconds). > That seems an unlikely max value -- which prompts this question.
The doc string is very old. https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/commit/5e627b214c3601c5772530878b64693e7b66be15 And I'm not sure if it is accurate anymore. It is very likely platform dependent. On Linux it's using clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC) and I didn't find anything that suggests it'll wrap around that fast on 64bits or 32bits. "The time corresponding to 0 is undefined" also does not mean the value followed by 1 is the max value. It is 0, just that it does not represent any particular time, neither does any other values it returns. This function also does not give ns precision. So most likely it'll never return 1 Finally, please stop posting to this list and use https://discourse.julialang.org/ instead.
