64bit timestamp

[Jan Grant]

On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, deeptech71 at gmail.com wrote:

> Oliver Fromme wrote:
> 
> Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> > On 2007-03-25 01:36, deeptech71 at gmail.com wrote:
> >> Oliver Fromme wrote:
> >>> FreeBSD's UFS2 already uses 96bit timestamps, where 64 bits are used
> >>> for seconds and 32 bits are used for nanoseconds.  Is that sufficient
> >>> for you?
> >> What the hell for?
> >
> > ``Just because it can.''
> 
> Good. :] 2x64bit for x64?

To measure what? Even at nanosecond resolution, the notion of 
timestamping an event seems a little arbitrary. Much beyond it and it's 
not clear exactly what you're "measuring" - or even if there is any 
physical interpretation.


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