[Python-ideas] Why not picoseconds?

[Stefan Krah]

On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 08:40:33AM +0200, Stephan Houben wrote:
> "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?

tai64na has supported attoseconds for quite some time:

    https://cr.yp.to/libtai/tai64.html

The relativity issue is declared to be out of scope for the document. :-)


Stefan Krah