Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 18:05:23 -0700 From: "Michael W. Akers" <mwakers@home.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: What's a microsecond? Message-ID: <001a01bef0f1$6830b640$e7dd0518@mwakers.net> References: <9938.935798495@monkeys.com>
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Ron,
That's microsecond as in 1/1,000,000 of a second.
Parts of seconds are always in base 10 notation.
Michael Akers
----- Original Message -----
From: Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg@monkeys.com>
To: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Friday, August 27, 1999 5:01 PM
Subject: What's a microsecond?
>
> OK, so maybe this is dumb question, but I need to know.
>
> The documentation for gettimeofday(2) says:
>
> struct timeval {
> long tv_sec; /* seconds since Jan. 1, 1970 */
> long tv_usec; /* and microseconds */
> };
>
> Is that "microsecond" as in 1/1,000,000 seconds? Or is that "microsecond"
> as in 1/2^20 seconds?
>
> There _is_ a slight but significant difference.
>
>
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