On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Jason Linhart wrote:
>
> I've never seen Microsoft actualy say what units the
> field in the logs are in, although some people such as
> <http://www.steds.org/Docs/ms_iis/log_format.htm> say that they are
> milliseconds and also claim to be quoting Microsoft.
>
That's the IIS format not the W3C format though.
I'm rather surprised if they log in milliseconds in the IIS format and
centiseconds in the W3C format. But maybe the people who wrote those two
bits of code didn't talk to each other. If even NASA can lose $125m of
spacecraft because one team worked in imperial and one in metric units, what
hope is there? <http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msp98/news/mco990930.html>
> Anyhow, I got that they are in 1/100ths through emperical testing.
> Summary produces a modem speed report based on the TIME-TAKEN number and
> I get a near perfect match to the modem speed distribution observed on
> other sites when I assume the numbers are 1/100ths of seconds.
>
That's pretty convincing. But isn't it possible to check very easily by
writing a CGI script that deliberately takes a couple of seconds to
complete? It would then be obvious whether it logged 200 or 2000.
I suppose there's no way to get an answer out of Microsoft if it's not at
support.microsoft.com?
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