Ashley Yakeley
in milliseconds
This is not fine enough. The current System.Time uses picoseconds, for instance.
What others do: - Unix uses microseconds (gettimeofday) and nanoseconds (clock_gettime). On my PC both are actually accurate to microseconds though. - Java uses milliseconds. - .NET uses 100ns ticks. I guess this is what Windows NT uses. - Python uses a Python float (C double) for the number of seconds since the Epoch, which gives about 0.2us of resolution until 2038. On my PC the gettimeofday() call takes almost 2us to complete. So I would guess nanoseconds are enough. Or maybe the actual unit should be left implementation-dependent. Nanoseconds have a nice property that 10^9 fits in 2^30. -- __("< Marcin Kowalczyk \__/ qrczak@knm.org.pl ^^ http://qrnik.knm.org.pl/~qrczak/