From: Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 03:23:37 GMT
Subject: Re: Millisecond precision in timestamps?
Message-ID: <20121128032337.GB1669@thyrsus.com>
In-Reply-To: <20121128011750.GA23498@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net>:
> But I really wonder if anybody actually cares about adding sub-second
> timestamp support, or if it is merely "because SVN has it".

There's actually one possible other reason to care.  1-second granularity 
isn't quite fine enough to guarantee that a (committer, timestamp)
pair is a unique key.  1 microsecond granularity would be.
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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>