Alexander Belopolsky added the comment:

Another advantage of a single nanoseconds field is that currently microseconds 
are packed in 3 bytes and nanoseconds would fit in 4 - a 1 byte increase, but 
to add a 0-999 field, one would need at least 2 bytes.

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