-={ Sunday, 01 May 2016, 18:20:11.694869204 +1000 }=-   
      
   Hey Tony!   
      
    TL> unless you run your own GPS locked time server on your LAN.   
      
   Even then I'd suspect nanosecond accuracy to be a tad out of reach.    
   microsecond maybe.   
      
    TL> I use the date command a lot   
      
   Me too.   
      
    TL> YYYYMMDDHHMMSSS.sssssssss   
      
     date --date='@1462090811.694869204' +%Y%m%d%H%M%S.%N   
      
   produces,   
      
     20160501082011.694869204   
      
    TL> simple and easily converted with the date command into anything we   
    TL> like.   
      
   Yes.  I believe the Bluewave offline format used a 32-bit signed int unixtime   
   in seconds which has a shelf life which expires in 2038.  Syncronet uses an   
   unsigned int which extends the shelf life to Febuary of 2106.  The 'date'   
   command uses a 64-bit float which has a shelf life good up to the year   
   2147485547 which is over two billion years from now.  Our unixtime is good up   
   to 67768036191676799.000000000 seconds which is definetly overkill methinks.    
   :-)   
      
   In an attempt to make messages truly unique, the addition of nanoseconds   
   furthers that cause despote it's accuracy being doubtful.   
      
   Life is good,   
   Maurice   
      
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