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Re: Grand Unified Theory of Date/Time modules

From:
pjacklam
Date:
January 27, 2003 14:43
Subject:
Re: Grand Unified Theory of Date/Time modules
Message ID:
n0lmp5yx.fsf@online.no
rbowen@rcbowen.com (Rich Bowen) wrote:

> On Sun, 6 May 2001 03:35:15 +0530, Abhijit Menon-Sen said:
>
> >  Have you seen the TAI64* formats at <URL:http://cr.yp.to/time.html>?
> >  (I am supposedly writing Time::TAI64.)
>
> Hmm. attosecond accuracy? What real-world application really
> needs that sort of thing?

Physicists.  The expected life-span of a top quark is 0.4 zs,
which is less than one millionth of 1 as.

Peter

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