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   Message 314 of 1,237   
   Maurice Kinal to Marushka Petrovitch   
   baby, now you're moving way too fast   
   03 May 16 01:30:10   
   
   -={ 1462239010.706329213 }=-   
      
   Hey Marushka!   
      
   Just for fun, on an 8-core 2.4Ghz cpu, two different users ran a crontab   
   scheduled for the exact same time that ran 'date +%s.%N' five times in   
   succession and then the results were combined into one file and sorted for   
   comparison as shown below;   
      
   1462237200.105699275   
   1462237200.107078415   
   1462237200.107140965   
   1462237200.108604006   
   1462237200.108636156   
   1462237200.109945137   
   1462237200.110019297   
   1462237200.111385937   
   1462237200.111410127   
   1462237200.112783078   
      
   Everyone of them is unique simply because of the added nanoseconds, although   
   all of them were still unique to the tens of microseconds (two dupes at 100s   
   of nicroseconds).  milliseconds produced a number of duplications which isn't   
   really surprising.   
      
   Considering I am one user and it is taking minutes for me to type in this   
   message I am confident it is indeed unique and that I'd have to cheat to   
   create a duplicate extra-special %s.%N formatted timestamp.   
      
   Life is good,   
   Maurice   
      
   ... Don't cry for me I have vi.   
   --- GNU bash, version 4.3.42(1)-release (x86_64-atom-linux-gnu)   
    * Origin: Little Mikey's Brain - Ladysmith BC, Canada (1:153/7001.0)   

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