[LEAPSECS] EBML: yet another date format?

[Brooks Harris]

On 2015-06-28 07:31 AM, Hal Murray wrote:
>> Can somebody do the math to figure out what range of dates would be
>> supported by a signed 8-octet integer in nanoseconds centered on
>> 2001-01-01?
> 64 bits of nanoseconds covers 584 years
> divide by 2 if you want signed (63 bits)
>
Looks to me they mean 128 bits?

By the way, 1588/PTP timestamp is 48bit seconds and 32bit nanoseconds, 
for approx 8915742 years....

-Brooks