need to print seconds from the epoch including the millisecond

[matt.doolittle33 at gmail.com]

On Thursday, December 26, 2013 11:54:41 PM UTC-5, Dave Angel wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Dec 2013 20:03:34 -0500, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> 
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> wrote:
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> > On 12/26/2013 5:48 PM, Dave Angel wrote:
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> > > You're probably on Windows,  which does time differently.
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> > With 3.3 and 3.4 on Windows 7, time.time() gives 6 fractional 
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> digits.
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> >  >>> import time; time.time()
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> > 1388105935.971099
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> > With 2.7, same machine, I only get 3.
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> The way I recall it,  Windows time is a mess. To get better than 10 
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> ms resolution you needed to use time.clock, but that isn't epoch 
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> time. Trickier solutions existed, depending on exactly what the 
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> problem was. But judging from your test, 3.3 built those gyrations 
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> into the stdlib. I dunno,  I pretty much stopped using Windows 4 
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> years ago.
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> -- 
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> DaveA

I am on Ubuntu 12.10.   I am still working with the 2 decimal places. Sometime ago i had this issue and I forget how i solved it. maybe i used datetime? thanks!