On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 05:04:44PM -0500, Dale Smith wrote:
> I don't see a way to reset/clear these counters. Should there be? It
> will take a while to overflow 64 bits, so it probably isn't needed?
Q: If you have one missing Announce per second, when will it overflow?
A: 2^64 = 18446744073709551616 s
= 5124095576030431 h
= 213503982334601 d
= 584542046090.6 y
= 5845420460.9 c
(but I neglected the possible future leap seconds ;^)
So it never overflows, practically speaking.
Applications can simply latch the current value and subtract it from
subsequent reads in order to "reset" the counter.
Thanks,
Richard
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