Re: Time resolution in Emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2022 09:38:00 -0700
> Cc: manikulin@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> 
> On 4/25/22 09:10, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > It's very hard to keep only that many significant digits when working
> > with fractional numbers.
> 
> It's not hard to send a textual timestamp.

Yes, but the moment you do any arithmetics on that on the other end,
you start losing precision and gaining random digits.  We should keep
that in mind and not treat the results too seriously.