26 Jan
2005
26 Jan
'05
10:44 a.m.
Bayley, Alistair wrote:
What are the limits on a 64bit TAI implementation? 64 bits gives you (signed integers): +/- 9223372036854775807:
Assuming milliseconds (is this reasonable?): 922337203685477.5807 secs ~= 106751991167 days ~= 292471208 years
OK, that seems plenty...
Some one suggested picosecond resolution - however I am sure that timing cannot be accutate at that resolution, so perhaps microsecond resolution which gives: 292471 years, at the nano-second level things seem to be getting a bit short just 292 years - seems a little Y2K3 to me. Of course planning for the far future an Integer would be better - but is it fast enough? Keean.