[systemd-devel] [EXT] Question about timestamps in the USER_RECORD spec

[Lennart Poettering]

On Do, 28.10.21 11:46, Arian van Putten (arian.vanputten at gmail.com) wrote:

> Indeed it mentions it; but after careful reading there is no normative
> suggestion to actually adhere to it. (no SHOULD and definitely not a MUST,
> not even a RECOMMENDED).
>
> They just say that to increase interoperability no more than 53 bits of
> integer precision should be assumed without making a clear normative
> decision about it.   The only normative part in that section is that
> numbers consist of an integer part and a fractional part.
>
> They also say that implementations are allowed to set any limits on the
> range and precision of numbers accepted.
>
> So yeah Lennart seems to be technically correct. Even when reading the RFC
> by the letter.

BTW:

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/21168

Lennart

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