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Author	pitrou
Recipients	gvanrossum, larry, loewis, pitrou, r.david.murray
Date	2012-02-26.16:05:34
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Message-id	<1330272335.66.0.227165508296.issue14127@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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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)

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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Date	User	Action	Args
2012-02-26 16:05:35	pitrou	set	recipients: + pitrou, gvanrossum, loewis, larry, r.david.murray
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