Re: Time representation Jonathan S. Shapiro (shap@eros-os.org)
Mon, 22 May 2000 19:30:38 -0400

What's the granularity? I want better than seconds. It's not that I think the clocks are accurate, but more bits tends to avoid sort collisions even when they are bad bits.

shap



From: "John C. Randolph" <jcr@idiom.com> To: "Jonathan S. Shapiro" <shap@eros-os.org> Cc: "DCMS List" <dcms-dev@eros-os.org>
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2000 7:09 PM
Subject: Re: Time representation

> I'd suggest grabbing the CFDate code out of the Darwin library at
> opensource.apple.com.
>
> The datum is a 32-bit float, the epoch is midnight, Jan 1, 2001, and any
> time it's serialized it's written out as an ASCII string. (I think it's
> ASCII, but it might be unicode.)
>
> -jcr
>