> On 15 Sep 2023, at 23:00, rmlibre--- via Python-list <python-list@python.org> > wrote: > > I'd like to capture the output of `time.perf_counter_ns()` as an 8-byte > timestamp. > > I'm aware that the docs provide an undefined start value for that clock. > I'm going to assume that means it can't be expected to fit within 8 > bytes. However, it would be rather convenient if it could. Does anyone > know if any such platform agnostic assumption could be made for any > fixed number of bytes, even if it isn't exactly 8 bytes?
If you read the source code the value is stored in a 64 bit int for unix and windows. There is a comment that it covers the range of +-232 years. Barry > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
