64bit timestamp

[deeptech71 at gmail.com]

Jan Grant wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 

Yeah exactly, something's just redunant.