Portable general timestamp format, not 2038-limited

[James Harris]

On 4 Jul, 22:18, "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usen... at hjp.at> wrote:
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> But it really doesn't matter much. If you ignore leap seconds, using
> days instead of seconds is just a constant factor (in fact, the unix
> timestamp ignores leap seconds, too, so it's always a constant factor).
> You can't represent a second exactly if the unit is one day (1/86400 is
> not a multiple of a power of two), but that probably doesn't matter.

Sure. However, the proposal was to define ticks as 25 microseconds.