[PD] what's the deal with [utime] object?

[IOhannes m zmölnig]

On 02/27/2016 12:34 AM, s p wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I am trying to use [utime] to get an absolute date in seconds since epoch.
> However, the number of seconds seems to be rounded, so I don't understand
> how is it of any use!? For example, the following patch prints 0 ...
> 

short answer: single precision floating point precision.

depending on your use-case, you probably can use zexy's [date] and
[time] objects instead.

gmdsar
IOhannes


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