-------- In message <[email protected]>, Hal Mu rray writes: >> Looks to me they mean 128 bits? > >How did you get that? > >>> supported by a signed 8-octet integer in nanoseconds centered on >8*8 is 64. I didn't see anything about using two of them. > >POSIX uses 32 bits of seconds and 32 bits of nanoseconds. That will wrap in >2038. Using all nanoseconds gets a few more bits so the overall range will >be a bit bigger. (Whether it's enough bigger is another matter.)
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