[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eugene Van Der Pijll) wrote: > Timestamps with a precision better than an attosecond are never > needed, as far as I know. Physicists work with as, ys and zs, > but only with time lengths or intervals, not with absolute time.
That's probably true -- and the example I gave was, admittedly, rather example -- but it was intended as a counter-example to the statement someone made that attoseconds are never used in the real world. Anyway, whatever base format is used, I hope that it has a large enough range and resolution/granularity. If not, then people will be more tempted to write even more (incompatible) time and date modules. Peter -- #!/local/bin/perl5 -wp -*- mode: cperl; coding: iso-8859-1; -*- # matlab comment stripper (strips comments from Matlab m-files) s/^((?:(?:[])}\w.]'+|[^'%])+|'[^'\n]*(?:''[^'\n]*)*')*).*/$1/x;
