SMF records are various.  In particular, they confront very different
temporal granularities.  For some  the  resolution of an STCKE value
is appropriate; for others the millisecond is the appropriate unit

A standard header is innocuous, but standardizing their substantive
timestamp formats would be inappropriate.   Delusive exactitude is an
old problem.

The quotation is now hackneyed, but Emerson disposed of such issues long ago:

. . . a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored
by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA

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