[issue39484] time_ns() and time() cannot be compared on windows

[Larry Hastings]

Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org> added the comment:

Yes, but you get the first 1 bit for free.  So it actually only uses 30 bits of storage inside the double.

This is apparently called "leading bit convention":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754#Representation_and_encoding_in_memory

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