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|    Message 307 of 1,237    |
|    Tony Langdon to Maurice Kinal    |
|    Re: Testing    |
|    02 May 16 11:36:00    |
      -=> Maurice Kinal wrote to Tony Langdon <=-               MK> I am guessing we already have that accuracy. However we do have access        MK> to %N which, albiet of questionable accuracy, offers increased        MK> uniqueness at no additional cost. Why not exploit it?               TL> But where do we have to be unique? On a single system? Across all        TL> systems?               MK> Everywhere for all time. :-)              Well, if you consider the timestamp as being in the order of millisecond       accuracy with a random number appended, then I guess that works for me. :D                TL> causing time to pass more slowly here.               MK> Stinkin' gravity!              LOL, makes it tricky. Apparently, the latest atomic clocks are so precise that       keeping them in synk is going to be near impossible, due to General Relativity       being very significant at the femtosecond level in normal situations, such as       different altitudes on the ground! :-)                     ... Cats are hard on cars. Mostly when you chase them over curbs!       --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.49        * Origin: Freeway BBS - freeway.apana.org.au (3:633/410)    |
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