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authorroot <root>2009-04-16 07:58:03 +0000
committerroot <root>2009-04-16 07:58:03 +0000
commit5074b3f82cd2bb6e929c063db2bda1f1eeb001ac (patch)
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parent03b1fee79a2a928d16ec78f466d5230bf20cbcda (diff)
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=head2 TIME REPRESENTATION
-Libev represents time as a single floating point number, representing the
-(fractional) number of seconds since the (POSIX) epoch (somewhere near
-the beginning of 1970, details are complicated, don't ask). This type is
-called C<ev_tstamp>, which is what you should use too. It usually aliases
-to the C<double> type in C, and when you need to do any calculations on
-it, you should treat it as some floating point value. Unlike the name
+Libev represents time as a single floating point number, representing
+the (fractional) number of seconds since the (POSIX) epoch (somewhere
+near the beginning of 1970, details are complicated, don't ask). This
+type is called C<ev_tstamp>, which is what you should use too. It usually
+aliases to the C<double> type in C. When you need to do any calculations
+on it, you should treat it as some floating point value. Unlike the name
component C<stamp> might indicate, it is also used for time differences
throughout libev.