2017-10-15 22:08 GMT+02:00 Eric V. Smith <eric@trueblade.com>:
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."


Do we realize that at this level of accuracy, relativistic time dilatation due
to continental drift starts to matter?

Stephan

 
Eric.


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