On Mon, 15 May 2000, Aengus Lawlor wrote:
> 
> To be fair, it's a Working Draft, not a spec.

Oh, I agree. But that's no reason to ignore it without a reason.

> It's a pity Microsoft didn't document why the ignored the draft (the use 
> of milliseconds ... are improvements, in my opinion).

I disagree here. Putting everything in seconds with decimals allows
different servers to choose different granularities. One can log in
milliseconds, one in centiseconds, and one in seconds, if they want.

> It
> might have triggered a move to finally upgrade the 4 year old draft to a 
> standard.
> 

I think there was a conscious decision to abandon it. It never really got
very far. I remember reading it when it first came out, and I was a bit
surprised when server vendors started implementing it a while after it
looked dead in the water.

> By the way, I remeber the question being asked when this came up before, 
> but I don't remember the answer. Does Apache log Time Taken in 
> milliseconds?
> 

No. I think this comes up on the newsgroup about once a week, but I don't
know if anyone's listening.

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