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In message <1355873265.1198.183.camel@revolution.hippie.lan>, Ian Lepore writes
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>On Tue, 2012-12-18 at 23:58 +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote:

>I'm not so sure about the 2^k precision.  You speak of seconds, but I
>would be worrying about sub-second precision in my work.

It is a bad idea, and it is physically pointless, given the stabilities
of the timebases available for computers in general.

Please just take my word as a time-nut, and use a 32.32 binary format
in seconds (see previous email) and be done with it.

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