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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.