time zone object
John Cowan
cowan at drv.cbc.com
Mon Sep 29 13:34:35 UTC 1997
Markus Kuhn wrote:
> Therefore, I consider anything less than 64-bit timestamps and
> nanosecond resolution in a new portable clock interface to be somewhat
> old-fashioned and ignorant about current hardware capabilities.
>
> POSIX uses
>
> struct timespec {
> long tv_sec; /* seconds */
> long tv_nsec; /* nanoseconds */
> };
>
> where tv_nsec is in the range 0 to 999_999_999.
And I consider a representation that is limited to the years
1901 through 2038 rather short-sighted. I concede that the
Java representation could probably use a few less bits for
range (currently +/- 300 My) and a few more for precision
(currently ms): chopping down the range to 300 Ky and
representing microseconds wouldn't be so bad.
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