From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: manikulin@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Time resolution in Emacs
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2022 19:57:42 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83k0bdm77d.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ef5f728f-fc03-26a1-e47a-c6be5efca83c@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Mon, 25 Apr 2022 09:38:00 -0700)
> Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2022 09:38:00 -0700
> Cc: manikulin@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
>
> On 4/25/22 09:10, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > It's very hard to keep only that many significant digits when working
> > with fractional numbers.
>
> It's not hard to send a textual timestamp.
Yes, but the moment you do any arithmetics on that on the other end,
you start losing precision and gaining random digits. We should keep
that in mind and not treat the results too seriously.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-04-25 16:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 106+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-04-07 12:37 bug#54764: encode-time: make DST and TIMEZONE fields of the list argument optional ones Max Nikulin
2022-04-09 7:52 ` Paul Eggert
2022-04-09 7:52 ` Paul Eggert
2022-04-09 11:36 ` Max Nikulin
2022-04-10 3:57 ` Max Nikulin
2022-04-13 14:40 ` Max Nikulin
2022-04-13 14:40 ` Max Nikulin
2022-04-13 18:35 ` Paul Eggert
2022-04-13 18:35 ` Paul Eggert
2022-04-14 13:19 ` Max Nikulin
2022-04-14 13:19 ` Max Nikulin
2022-04-14 22:46 ` Paul Eggert
2022-04-14 22:46 ` Paul Eggert
2022-04-15 2:14 ` Tim Cross
2022-04-15 2:14 ` Tim Cross
2022-04-15 17:23 ` Max Nikulin
2022-04-16 19:23 ` Paul Eggert
2022-04-21 16:59 ` Max Nikulin
2022-04-21 16:59 ` Max Nikulin
2022-04-16 19:23 ` Paul Eggert
2022-04-19 2:02 ` Paul Eggert
2022-04-19 2:02 ` Paul Eggert
2022-04-19 5:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-19 22:22 ` Paul Eggert
2022-04-19 22:22 ` Paul Eggert
2022-04-20 7:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-20 18:19 ` Paul Eggert
2022-04-20 18:19 ` Paul Eggert
2022-04-20 18:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-20 18:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-20 19:01 ` Paul Eggert
2022-04-20 19:01 ` Paul Eggert
2022-04-20 19:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-20 19:23 ` Paul Eggert
2022-04-20 19:23 ` Paul Eggert
2022-04-20 19:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-20 19:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-21 0:11 ` Paul Eggert
2022-04-21 0:11 ` Paul Eggert
2022-04-21 6:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-21 6:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-21 15:30 ` Max Nikulin
2022-04-21 15:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-21 17:23 ` Max Nikulin
2022-04-21 18:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-21 23:56 ` Paul Eggert
2022-04-21 23:56 ` Paul Eggert
2022-04-22 5:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-22 5:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-22 5:23 ` Time resolution in Emacs " Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-22 18:22 ` Paul Eggert
2022-04-22 18:52 ` Corwin Brust
2022-04-22 21:26 ` Paul Eggert
2022-04-23 6:27 ` Time resolution in Emacs Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-24 0:56 ` Paul Eggert
2022-04-24 6:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-24 11:47 ` Max Nikulin
2022-04-24 12:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-25 15:32 ` Paul Eggert
2022-04-25 16:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-22 19:35 ` Time resolution in Emacs argument optional ones Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-22 21:52 ` Paul Eggert
2022-04-23 6:51 ` Time resolution in Emacs Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-25 15:34 ` Paul Eggert
2022-04-25 16:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-25 16:38 ` Paul Eggert
2022-04-25 16:57 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-04-25 16:54 ` Max Nikulin
2022-04-25 17:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-25 19:27 ` Paul Eggert
2022-04-29 15:19 ` Max Nikulin
2022-04-29 16:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-20 19:14 ` bug#54764: encode-time: make DST and TIMEZONE fields of the list argument optional ones Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-23 14:35 ` Bernhard Voelker
2022-04-23 14:35 ` Bernhard Voelker
2022-04-20 7:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-19 5:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-20 15:07 ` Max Nikulin
2022-04-20 18:29 ` Paul Eggert
2022-04-20 18:29 ` Paul Eggert
2022-04-25 15:30 ` Max Nikulin
2022-04-25 15:30 ` Max Nikulin
2022-04-25 15:37 ` Paul Eggert
2022-04-25 19:49 ` Paul Eggert
2022-04-25 19:49 ` Paul Eggert
2022-04-30 11:22 ` Max Nikulin
2022-04-30 11:22 ` Max Nikulin
2022-05-01 2:32 ` Paul Eggert
2022-05-01 2:32 ` Paul Eggert
2022-05-01 17:15 ` Max Nikulin
2022-05-01 17:15 ` Max Nikulin
2022-04-25 15:37 ` Paul Eggert
2022-04-20 15:07 ` Max Nikulin
2022-04-15 17:23 ` Max Nikulin
2022-04-13 15:12 ` Max Nikulin
2022-04-13 15:12 ` Max Nikulin
2022-04-16 16:26 ` Max Nikulin
2022-04-17 1:58 ` Paul Eggert
2022-04-20 16:56 ` Max Nikulin
2022-04-20 16:56 ` Max Nikulin
2022-04-20 19:17 ` Paul Eggert
2022-04-20 19:17 ` Paul Eggert
2022-04-17 1:58 ` Paul Eggert
2022-04-16 16:26 ` Max Nikulin
[not found] ` <handler.54764.D54764.165091617725815.notifdone@debbugs.gnu.org>
2022-04-25 21:16 ` Glenn Morris
2022-04-26 1:18 ` Paul Eggert
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