On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 03:14:24AM +0700, Robert Elz wrote: > Date: Thu, 27 May 2021 05:05:15 -0000 (UTC) > From: mlel...@serpens.de (Michael van Elst) > Message-ID: <s8n9ab$hs1$1...@serpens.de> > > | mlel...@serpens.de (Michael van Elst) writes: > | > | >Either direction mstohz or hztoms should better always round up to > | >guarantee a minimal delay. > | > | And both should be replaced by hztous()/ustohz(). > > While changing ms to us is probably a good idea, when a change happens, > the "hz" part should be changed too. > > hz is (a unit of) a measure of frequency, ms (or us) is (a unit of) a > measure of time (duration) - converting one to the other makes no sense.
"hz" in this context comes from HZ - it is used here as dimension of 1s/HZ. Just like "ms" here is used as "1s/1000". It's a pretty sensible naming compared to much longer naming variants. Joerg
