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authorroot <root>2007-11-12 07:58:13 +0000
committerroot <root>2007-11-12 07:58:13 +0000
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@@ -41,7 +41,9 @@ will not have this argument.
=head1 TIME AND OTHER GLOBAL FUNCTIONS
-Libev represents time as a single floating point number. This type is
+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 double type in C.