From 0390181dd3de602ad404ba2940a73e0c8a297b6e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: root Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 07:23:46 +0000 Subject: *** empty log message *** --- ev.pod | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'ev.pod') diff --git a/ev.pod b/ev.pod index ef5b4f6..c522934 100644 --- a/ev.pod +++ b/ev.pod @@ -5050,8 +5050,12 @@ The type C is used to represent timestamps. It is required to have at least 51 bits of mantissa (and 9 bits of exponent), which is good enough for at least into the year 4000 with millisecond accuracy (the design goal for libev). This requirement is overfulfilled by -implementations using IEEE 754, which is basically all existing ones. With -IEEE 754 doubles, you get microsecond accuracy until at least 2200. +implementations using IEEE 754, which is basically all existing ones. + +With IEEE 754 doubles, you get microsecond accuracy until at least the +year 2255 (and millisecond accuray till the year 287396 - by then, libev +is either obsolete or somebody patched it to use C or +something like that, just kidding). =back -- cgit v1.2.3