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

[s p]

Yes, I guessed the issue was with precision, but in that case why would
anyone want to use it?
I was about to use [zexy/time], but [utime] would have been so much simpler
in my case ...

On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 10:23 AM, IOhannes m zmölnig <zmoelnig at iem.at>
wrote:

> 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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