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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Platform independent calendar
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On Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:56:49 GMT, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:

> If your platform independence requires passing values between heterogeneous 
> processors or code from different compilers, I'd suggest you use a 
> platform-independent representation, such as text.

For absolute UTC we are using FILETIME. It is has the precision of 100ns
and a sufficient range (it is 64 bit). But we do not propagate absolute
time stamps most of the time. Usually we do only the increments packed in
chain code (also variable length). That sufficiently reduces the network
traffic. (We need to be fast in order of tens of microseconds.)

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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