[Python-Dev] PEP 410 (Decimal timestamp): the implementation is ready for a review

[Greg Ewing]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> if there is an *actual*
> causal link between file A and B, the difference in timestamps should
> always be much larger than 100 ns.

And if there isn't a causal link, simultaneity is relative
anyway. To Fred sitting at his computer, file A might have
been created before file B, but to George running from the
other end of the building in response to an urgent bug
report, it could be the other way around.

So to be *really* accurate, the API needs a way for the
caller to indicate a frame of reference.

-- 
Greg