From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Subject: Re: Millisecond precision in timestamps? Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:04:19 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20121127230419.GA26080@thyrsus.com> References: <20121127204828.577264065F@snark.thyrsus.com> <7vzk22lmz9.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Shawn Pearce , git To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Nov 28 00:04:41 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TdUCm-0005Pr-DX for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 00:04:40 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755899Ab2K0XEZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:04:25 -0500 Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:58150 "EHLO snark.thyrsus.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755886Ab2K0XEY (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:04:24 -0500 Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 73E844065F; Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:04:20 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7vzk22lmz9.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano : > fsck_ident() in fsck.c rejects anything but " [1-9][0-9]* " after > the author and committer ident (i.e. the timestamp has to be > integral number of seconds since the epoch, not before it, nor > with fractional seconds). Is this architecturally significant? It sounds like another implementation detail. -- Eric S. Raymond