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From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: meta@public-inbox.org
Subject: lei timestamp resolution for mail synchronization
Date: Fri, 7 May 2021 00:13:32 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210507001332.GA18490@dcvr> (raw)

Is millisecond resolution "good enough" for mail synchronization?

Or maybe even seconds is sufficient...

When syncing mail across machines/devices/reboots, using the
system clock seems required (anybody syncing mail also uses
NTP, right?).

While Time::HiRes allows access to .tv_nsec for some APIs;
Time::HiRes::stat converts it to a double-precision float
(NV/Numeric Value in perlguts-speak).  That's not enough for
microsecond accuracy, even; and of course I don't think most
kernels or HW is actually accurate down to the nanosecond level.

                 reply	other threads:[~2021-05-07  0:13 UTC|newest]

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