[vox-tech] Easiest way to calculate date in 100 ns increments?

Bill Kendrick nbs at sonic.net
Wed Jun 23 15:38:18 PDT 2004


On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 03:28:41PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> Most likely, the results wouldn't be meaningful since the querent is
> looking for 100 ns resolution.  I believe that date uses gettimeofday,
> which is at best accurate to about two microseconds.

But I think the inputs were dates in YYYYMMDD format (though maybe there's
more precision that might be specified), in which case being off by a few
HOURS isn't going to affect it.  (As long as it's consistent :^) )

-bill!


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