Message 225861 - Python tracker

Message225861

Author	vstinner
Recipients	belopolsky, loewis, tim.peters, vstinner
Date	2014-08-25.01:45:52
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Message-id	<1408931153.11.0.791614914428.issue22117@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Instead of a complex structure, we can use a 64-bit signed integer to store a number of nanoseconds. For a UNIX epoch, nanoseconds since January 1st 1970, the min/max are: 1677-09-21 00:12:43.145224 2262-04-11 23:47:16.854776 The Linux kernel is going to use 64-bit integer even on 32-bit CPU to store timestamps, to simplify the code (to avoid the structure).

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Instead of a complex structure, we can use a 64-bit signed integer to store a number of nanoseconds. For a UNIX epoch, nanoseconds since January 1st 1970, the min/max are:
1677-09-21 00:12:43.145224
2262-04-11 23:47:16.854776

The Linux kernel is going to use 64-bit integer even on 32-bit CPU to store timestamps, to simplify the code (to avoid the structure).

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Date	User	Action	Args
2014-08-25 01:45:53	vstinner	set	recipients: + vstinner, tim.peters, loewis, belopolsky
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