Store your epoch times as 64-bit floats

Re:Store your epoch times as 64-bit floats by snailtrail on Friday June 09, 2023 @03:47PM (#36263178)

Posting blog like this how you get rejected from your dream job.

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Re:Store your epoch times as 64-bit floats by cassepipe on Friday June 09, 2023 @04:03PM (#36263385)

Care to elaborate ?

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Re:Store your epoch times as 64-bit floats by KaiserPro on Friday June 09, 2023 @04:07PM (#36263448)

I think they are implying that storing time as a float is riddled with problems (like arithmetic needs to think about hardware bugs and implementations)

The problem being that OP kinda glosses over them.

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Re:Store your epoch times as 64-bit floats by lordnacho on Friday June 09, 2023 @04:07PM (#36263455)

Think he's saying the advice in the blog post is bad.

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Re:Store your epoch times as 64-bit floats by cassepipe on Saturday June 10, 2023 @04:31PM (#36274790)

Would have liked to know why though. Oh well.

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