In message <[email protected]>, Bill Studenmund writes:
>> >I doubt we need more than 64 bit times. 2^63 seconds works out to >> >292,279,025,208 years, or 292 (american) billion years. Current theories >> >put the age of the universe at I think 12 to 16 billion years. So 64-bit >> >signed times in seconds will cover from before the big bang to way past >> >any time we'll be caring about. :-) > >I was unclear. I was refering to the seconds side of things. Sub-second >resolution would need other bits. Yes, but we need subsecond in the filesystems. Think about make(1) on a blinding fast machine... -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member [email protected] "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [email protected] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [email protected] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
