Re: RFC: Higher resolution time values

[Nick Ing-Simmons]

Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>At 10:55 AM 8/2/00 +0200, Gisle Aas wrote:
>>All functions that return time values (seconds since epoch) should use
>>floating point numbers to return as much precision as the platform
>>supports.  All functions that take time values as arguments should
>>work for fractional seconds if the platform supports it.
>
>Floats have resolution issues that exacerbate sub-second resolution issues.

As an engineer I would really like to know when you are going to 
run out of precision in double - that is forty something bits of mantissa.
That is more precision than you have in the real world.

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Nick Ing-Simmons