On 10/15/2017 3:13 PM, Stephan Houben wrote:

Hi all,

I propose multiples of the Planck time, 5.39 × 10 ⁻⁴⁴ s.

Unlikely computers can be more accurate than that anytime soon.

On a more serious note, I am not sure what problem was solved by moving from

double to a fixed-precision format.

I do know that it now introduced the issue of finding
the correct base unit of the fixed-precision format.

From Victor's original message, describing the current functions using 64-bit binary floating point numbers (aka double). They lose precision:

"The problem is that Python returns time as a floatting point number
which is usually a 64-bit binary floatting number (in the IEEE 754
format). This type starts to loose nanoseconds after 104 days."

Eric.