Yes, I guessed the issue was with precision, but in that case why would anyone want to use it?
I was about to use [zexy/time], but [utime] would have been so much simpler in my case ...

On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 10:23 AM, IOhannes m zmölnig <zmoelnig@iem.at> wrote:
On 02/27/2016 12:34 AM, s p wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I am trying to use [utime] to get an absolute date in seconds since epoch.
> However, the number of seconds seems to be rounded, so I don't understand
> how is it of any use!? For example, the following patch prints 0 ...
>

short answer: single precision floating point precision.

depending on your use-case, you probably can use zexy's [date] and
[time] objects instead.

gmdsar
IOhannes



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