[issue11993] Use sub-second resolution to determine if a file is newer

[Éric Araujo]

Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> added the comment:

To quote the initial message:

> If it were desired to determine which file was newer using sub-second
> values, perhaps that would make a reasonable change in distutils2,
> but files created with a few microseconds would have to be considered
> equivalent due to the reduced precision available in python floats
> (53 bits on my platform, if I understand correctly) as compared to
> the 64 bit precision used by some operating systems and file systems.

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title: Is it desired to distinguish new files from old with sub-second resolution? -> Use sub-second resolution to determine if a file is newer
versions: +Python 3.3 -Python 2.7

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