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morsch on June 18, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Falsehoods Programmers believe about Time

What's wrong about that? Numerical issues due to the truncation (ie 2500ms → 2s) and subsequent subtraction? Leap seconds? Anything else?

yxhuvud on June 18, 2012 [–]

Measurement error, and the fact that the timestamps may not be taken on the same machine.

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