A second here or there is a very big deal to those of us in the financial and database worlds.
Aside from the well known instances involving electronic trading I have customers fighting over cabinet positions and cable lengths to place processors closer to disk drives and on switch paths with 10ns less latency. > On Jul 25, 2016, at 16:57, Mark Sims <[email protected]> wrote: > > Apple's new file system timestamps files with nanosecond resolution. A lot > of Linux file systems also do that now. The nanosecond ain't what it used > to be... I can imagine people wanting picosecond timestamps in the near > future. Who knows, maybe we'll have something like NTP compensating for > light-speed delay for the gap between the read/write heads and disk surface > (assuming we still use heads and surfaces) ; -) > -------------------- > Except that you still have the issue of “what time did this file get > changed”. To most of us, that’s not really a big deal. A second either way … > who cares. > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
