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Re: inverse of float-time?
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: inverse of float-time? |
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Wed, 11 Sep 2013 21:16:22 -0700 |
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Sam Steingold wrote:
> what I want is for float time to be transparently accepted by
> all functions which accept list time.
On second thought I'm not sure I want to encourage that.
Floating-point loses information, due to rounding, and
this can cause glitches that can make floating-point
more trouble than it's worth.
For example, if gettimeofday reports 1378930161.099999786 seconds
after 1970, then current-time returns the exact representation
(21040 52721 99999 786000) but float-time rounds this to
1378930161.1. Sure, it's a small error, but the fact that
it's nonzero can cause problems.
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