From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dario Faggioli Subject: Re: PRI_stime Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 12:18:12 +0200 Message-ID: <1445336292.3009.94.camel@citrix.com> References: <5625FAC802000078000AC955@prv-mh.provo.novell.com> <562618B902000078000AC9F4@prv-mh.provo.novell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============7444104873563568024==" Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta14.messagelabs.com ([193.109.254.103]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1ZoTzp-0006WX-1b for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Tue, 20 Oct 2015 10:18:21 +0000 In-Reply-To: <562618B902000078000AC9F4@prv-mh.provo.novell.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Jan Beulich , George Dunlap Cc: xen-devel List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org --===============7444104873563568024== Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-whepgmU++UiUPT0hMTXg" --=-whepgmU++UiUPT0hMTXg Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2015-10-20 at 02:34 -0600, Jan Beulich wrote: > > > > On 20.10.15 at 10:10, wrote: > > Personally I've never taken the time to familiarize myself with the > > magnitude of hex numbers vs decimal numbers; so in the case of > > time, I > > could easily see that 10000000 nanoseconds is about 1ms; but I > > don't > > have a good sense of how long 0x1000000 nanoseconds is. The fact > > that > > our times are based on base 10 instead of base 2 is I think as good > > an > > argument as any for leaving it as a decimal. >=20 Yep, for time, I personally prefer decimal too. > Well, as long as the number of seconds the value represents is small, > this indeed is a good argument for using dec. However, already > when we get into the hour range we're talking about 12-digit values > without any separators, and at least for me this means counting > from either end to find a place where to put a mental separator. So > if staying with dec, perhaps we should make these second based, > i.e. .? >=20 This would be really useful, and I'd be fine with scheduling related PRI_stime to look like this. I think I really like it, actually. It's what we do already for console timestamps, in case "=3Dboot" is specified, isn't it? Thanks and Regards, Dario --=20 <> (Raistlin Majere) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Dario Faggioli, Ph.D, http://about.me/dario.faggioli Senior Software Engineer, Citrix Systems R&D Ltd., Cambridge (UK) --=-whepgmU++UiUPT0hMTXg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEABECAAYFAlYmFOUACgkQk4XaBE3IOsRKpgCggneCOsunXAgRXbWuG9N+9W4A eWUAoKWLRuMukEHj0cuRQh7AgzZbbYg0 =X/IU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-whepgmU++UiUPT0hMTXg-- --===============7444104873563568024== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel --===============7444104873563568024==--