At 07:30 PM 5/22/00 -0400, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
>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.
Be careful about the granularity vs. the precision. In Java on the PC we found that currentTimeMillis() had a granularity of about 1/20 of a second. We ended up writing a routine to give us microsecond granularity on PC/Mac/Solaris. You can have it's current incarnation if you want.