Oct. 2, 1998
9:39 p.m.
Markus Kuhn writes:
The best atomic clock on this planet (CS1 by PTB in Braunschweig) barely can do UTC with a real-time precision of one nanosecond.
There are many scientific projects for which nanosecond resolution is inadequate. ``It's the intervals, stupid.''
I think attoseconds are horrible overkill.
What exactly do you claim is so ``horrible''? Do you think that you're going to run out of disk space if you store 16-byte timestamps? ---Dan 1000 recipients, 28.8 modem, 10 seconds. http://pobox.com/~djb/qmail/mini.html