Pondering 2038

Posted Aug 16, 2013 9:01 UTC (Fri) by eru (subscriber, #2753)
In reply to: Pondering 2038 by rleigh
Parent article: Pondering 2038

One thing worth pointing out is that it doesn't matter that the CPU can't measure this accurately; external acquisition hardware can, and we want to be able to store and process such timing data.

Certainly true, but your measurement application is likely to use its own data type for the times in this situation anyway, if only for portability: you cannot rely on the OS you are using to provide a suitable high-resolution time type (especially now that multiple slightly different solutions for the same Y2038 problem are likely to emerge among Unix variants).