On 12/10/2012 20:38, Ethan Gutmann wrote: > > I'm a little confused by this attitude. I recognize that there are issues > around dates, I've written a few date libraries myself to get around insane > excel date issues (pop quiz for anyone at MS, was 1900 a leap year?) or just > to simplify APIs for my own use. But do neither of you think that > nanoseconds are important to scientists? I know of enough projects that work > with pico (and a few with femto) seconds. Even though I often work with > climate data covering ~100s of years and used to work with geologic data > covering ~billions of years, I may start working with raw laser data for > distance measurements where nanoseconds can be a pretty big deal. These data > would be collected over a few years time, so a date utility that can handle > that scale range would be useful. I guess I'll be writing my own date/time > library again and hacking together some way of plotting data in a meaningful > way in matplotlib. > > Don't get me wrong, matplotlib shouldn't have to reinvent the wheel here, but > claiming that nobody could possibly care about 1e-12 seconds seems a little > provincial. My apologies if that is not how the above statements were > intended. > > regards, > Ethan > >
I actually said "What percentage of computer users wants a delta of 1e-12? I suspect that the vast majority of users couldn't care two hoots about miniscule time deltas in a world where changing time zones can cause chaos...". How does this translate into "claiming that nobody could possibly care about 1e-12 seconds seems a little provincial"? -- Cheers. Mark Lawrence. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
