binary protocol time representation

[Roberto Spadim]

don't forget that for high speed systems (more than 1Hz) time must have 
fraction of seconds, like microtime() in php with 6 digits after seconds

Dan Farina escreveu:
> On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 14:16 +0200, a. wrote:
>   
>> Ticks are easy in .NEt, but I'm much more concerned about the  
>> "meaning" of that specific time.
>>
>> If my server runs DST but one of the clients is on CET, and the  
>> client sends 2007-07-12 12:00 AM, what does it mean? 12:00 in DST or  
>> CET?
>>
>> We either should declare that absolute expiration should treated as  
>> UTC, or get rid of it and use relative expirations.
>>
>>     
>
> Yes, either of these makes me more happy than the current situation.
>
> I generally don't like absolute times unless absolutely required,
> though. Relative time is robust to all sorts of things for free like
> massively mismatched clocks and, as mentioned, time zones.
>
> df
>
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