logging module -- better timestamp accuracy on Windows

sturlamolden sturlamolden at yahoo.no
Wed Feb 16 10:34:20 EST 2011


On 16 Feb, 15:30, benhoyt <benh... at gmail.com> wrote:

> It seems to me that the logging module should use a millisecond-accurate timestamp (time.clock) on Windows, just like the "timeit" module does.

AFAIK, the Windows performance counter has long-term accuracy issues,
so neither is perfect. Preferably we should have a timer with the long-
term accuracy of time.time and the short-term accuracy of time.clock.

Sturla




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