On 3 Jul, 06:12, Scott David Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Inspired format: > Days since a some standard date (the TAI date may be a good such > date) expressed as fixed point 64-bit (32-bit day part, 32-bit > day-fraction part) or floating point (using Intel's double-precision, > for example, gives you 26 bits each for day and day-fraction, though > the binary point moves for particular stamps).
This is close to or the same as my original suggestion. The break between days and sub-days seems to make more sense than breaking the fractional part elsewhere. It also gives a convenient point to hang datestamps on rather than just timestamps. FWIW I wonder if a 64-bit version of the above would cope with all practical time needs. With that the time would range to +/- 9000 quintillion years (18 digits) and there would be over 200 trillion ticks per second or 200 in a picosecond making, I think, each tick 5 femtoseconds. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
