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Re: need to print seconds from the epoch including the millisecond

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On Thu, 2 Jan 2014 16:23:22 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards 
<invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> AFAIK, that's irrelevent.  time.time() returns a float.  On all the
> CPython implementations I know of, that is a 64-bit IEEE format, 
which
> provides 16 decimal digits of precision regardless of the 
granularity
> of the system time value.  At this point in time, that means 10 
digits
> left of the decimal point and 6 to the right.

Correction: no more than about 6 to the right.  You can certainly get 
less, from an os with a smaller resolution.  Or you can lose some of 
what you do get by printing in a sub-optimal way.

-- 
DaveA

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need to print seconds from the epoch including the millisecond matt.doolittle33@gmail.com - 2013-12-26 10:32 -0800
  Re: need to print seconds from the epoch including the millisecond Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2013-12-26 11:22 -0800
    Re: need to print seconds from the epoch including the millisecond matt.doolittle33@gmail.com - 2013-12-26 14:06 -0800
      Re: need to print seconds from the epoch including the millisecond Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-12-27 09:34 +1100
        Re: need to print seconds from the epoch including the millisecond Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-01-02 16:23 +0000
          Re: need to print seconds from the epoch including the millisecond Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2014-01-02 21:41 -0500
            Re: need to print seconds from the epoch including the millisecond Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-01-03 15:33 +0000
              Re: need to print seconds from the epoch including the millisecond Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-04 02:41 +1100
      Re: need to print seconds from the epoch including the millisecond Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-12-26 17:48 -0500
      Re: need to print seconds from the epoch including the millisecond Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-12-26 20:03 -0500
      Re: need to print seconds from the epoch including the millisecond Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-12-26 20:29 -0500
        Re: need to print seconds from the epoch including the millisecond matt.doolittle33@gmail.com - 2013-12-27 07:43 -0800
      Re: need to print seconds from the epoch including the millisecond Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-12-26 23:54 -0500
        Re: need to print seconds from the epoch including the millisecond matt.doolittle33@gmail.com - 2013-12-27 07:42 -0800
        Re: need to print seconds from the epoch including the millisecond matt.doolittle33@gmail.com - 2013-12-27 07:40 -0800
          Re: need to print seconds from the epoch including the millisecond Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-12-27 11:20 -0500
          Re: need to print seconds from the epoch including the millisecond Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-12-27 11:27 -0500
            Re: need to print seconds from the epoch including the millisecond matt.doolittle33@gmail.com - 2013-12-27 10:09 -0800
              Re: need to print seconds from the epoch including the millisecond Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-12-27 13:50 -0500
                Re: need to print seconds from the epoch including the millisecond Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-12-27 13:53 -0500
                Re: need to print seconds from the epoch including the millisecond Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-12-27 20:15 -0500
              Re: need to print seconds from the epoch including the millisecond Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-12-27 13:49 -0500
                Re: need to print seconds from the epoch including the millisecond matt.doolittle33@gmail.com - 2013-12-30 04:16 -0800
                Re: need to print seconds from the epoch including the millisecond Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-12-30 14:14 +0000
                Re: need to print seconds from the epoch including the millisecond Cousin Stanley <cousinstanley@gmail.com> - 2013-12-30 10:07 -0700
                Re: need to print seconds from the epoch including the millisecond Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-12-30 17:35 +0000
                Re: need to print seconds from the epoch including the millisecond Cousin Stanley <cousinstanley@gmail.com> - 2013-12-30 11:17 -0700
                Re: need to print seconds from the epoch including the millisecond Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-12-31 05:57 +1100
          Re: need to print seconds from the epoch including the millisecond Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-12-27 13:14 -0500
          Re: need to print seconds from the epoch including the millisecond Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2013-12-28 11:25 +1100
            Re: need to print seconds from the epoch including the millisecond matt.doolittle33@gmail.com - 2013-12-29 18:44 -0800
              Re: need to print seconds from the epoch including the millisecond Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-12-30 07:50 -0500
                Re: need to print seconds from the epoch including the millisecond Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-12-30 09:22 -0500
              Re: need to print seconds from the epoch including the millisecond Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-12-30 08:01 -0500
                Re: need to print seconds from the epoch including the millisecond matt.doolittle33@gmail.com - 2013-12-30 05:40 -0800
          Re: need to print seconds from the epoch including the millisecond Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-12-27 21:10 -0500
            Re: need to print seconds from the epoch including the millisecond Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2013-12-28 03:50 +0000

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