From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,51aec3e725649fde X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-04 12:46:02 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!sn-xit-01!supernews.com!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Fairly simple question about using time in Ada References: X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Message-ID: Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 19:44:32 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.7.82.199 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com 1002224672 24.7.82.199 (Thu, 04 Oct 2001 12:44:32 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 12:44:32 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13738 Date: 2001-10-04T19:44:32+00:00 List-Id: >accuracy of a number and the precision of a number. They are >different! What you need for good time stamps is accuracy (fidelity to >reality), not precision (number of bits or digits used to represent >the value). Accuracy is what www.adapower.com/reuse/tt.html is about.