[LEAPSECS] EBML: yet another date format?

Hal Murray hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Mon Jun 29 02:19:57 EDT 2015


> Looks to me they mean 128 bits?

How did you get that?

>> supported by a signed 8-octet integer in nanoseconds centered on
8*8 is 64.  I didn't see anything about using two of them.

POSIX uses 32 bits of seconds and 32 bits of nanoseconds.  That will wrap in 
2038.  Using all nanoseconds gets a few more bits so the overall range will 
be a bit bigger.  (Whether it's enough bigger is another matter.)

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