Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment:

How about a separate float attribute for the fractional part (in seconds)? This 
gives a femtosecond precision (assuming a 50 bits mantissa). The utime() could 
accept a (integral part, fractional part) tuple to set a timestamp without 
losing bits.

(PHP does something similar, but badly, with its microtime() function:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.microtime.php)

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