On Sun, 3 Jul 2016, brian m. carlson wrote:
On Sun, Jul 03, 2016 at 03:57:31PM +0200, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
On 07/03/2016 03:48 PM, Salz, Rich wrote:
I suggest we use ASN1 generalized time (which has only a couple of
bytes overhead) or ISO 8601 profiled to be like the ASN1 format:
YYYY-MM-DD-HH:MM:SS.sss with fraction optional.
ASN1 sounds complex in this case, some form of ISO8601 variant might be
helpful.
Alternatively expanding the size of the value from 32 bits to 64 bits
might be easier to deal with for backwards compatibility reasons.
I'd strongly recommend simply using a 64-bit (signed?) integer. It's
compact, avoids time zones (which are a source of bugs), and is the
logical extension.
I've seen 64-bit integer measuring in quanta of 100ns in a few places,
FWIW. The finer granularity doesn't really eat into the usable range, for
a couple axes of future-proofing.
-Ben
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