Accounting changes

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Fri May 4 18:38:17 UTC 2007


In message <463B581E.6070804 at aueb.gr>, Diomidis Spinellis writes:

>On modern processors the various time values were 0, because many 
>commands took less than 1/64s to execute [bde].  Now time values are 
>stored with microsecond precision as float numbers.(I've written code 
>that allows the kernel to write them without any floating point 
>operations.)

Why on earth introduce another time format ?

Please use a standard time format please.

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