From: MARK CALLAGHAN Date: August 26 2009 4:32am Subject: what is a 100 nanosec unit -- my_getsystime() List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/internals/37280 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I stumbled across this comment. What is a 100 nanosec unit? Why was that used instead of nanosecs or microsecs? /* get time since epoc in 100 nanosec units */ /* thus to get the current time we should use the system function with the highest possible resolution */ ... ulonglong my_getsystime() { ... } -- Mark Callaghan mdcallag@stripped