On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:39:45 -0800 Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > > What purpose is there to recording timestamps in nanoseconds? For > clocks that start when the process starts running, float *is* > (basically) good enough. For measuring e.g. file access times, there > is no way that the actual time is know with anything like that > precision (even if it is *recorded* as a number of milliseconds -- > that's a different issue).
The number one use case, as far as I understand, is to have bit-identical file modification timestamps where it can matter. I agree that the rest is anecdotical. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
