Hi, MARK!
On Aug 25, MARK CALLAGHAN wrote:
> I stumbled across this comment.
> What is a 100 nanosec unit? Why was that used instead of nanosecs or microsecs?
It's a unit of time used in uuid (original, version 1)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_Unique_Identifier
> /* 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()
> {
> ...
> }
Regards / Mit vielen Grüßen,
Sergei
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