On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 9:17 AM, J Luis <[email protected]> wrote:
> OK, now I'm puzzled (0.4 on Win 64)
>
> julia> 2^60
> 1152921504606846976
>
> julia> 2^62
> 4611686018427387904
>
> julia> 2^63
> -9223372036854775808
>
> julia> 2^64
> 0
>
>

This is integer overflow.

>
>
> sexta-feira, 29 de Abril de 2016 às 14:03:52 UTC+1, Stefan Karpinski
> escreveu:
>>
>> I'll answer with a pair of questions:
>>
>> what range of dates can you represent using a 64-bit integer to nanosecond
>> precision?
>> what range of dates can you represent using a 64-bit integer to
>> millisecond precision?
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 8:06 AM, Ben Southwood <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Are there any packages that can handle "Unix style" times?  How come
>>> Julia can only handle seconds in 0.4.5 and milliseconds in 0.5 (unstable)?
>>> Shouldn't we just aim big and go all the way to nanos?
>>>
>>> For example, it would be great if I could handle the following times.
>>>
>>> 2015-12-11 09:46:40.882362Z
>>>
>>> 2015-09-11 14:37:12.960014+01:00,
>>>
>>
>

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