[Python-Dev] PEP 410 (Decimal timestamp): the implementation is ready for a review (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Thu Feb 16 23:38:13 CET 2012

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:

It doesn't change anything to the Makefile issue, if timestamps are different in a single nanosecond, they are seen as different by make (by another program comparing the timestamp of two files using nanosecond precision).

But make doesn't compare timestamps for equality -- it compares for newer. That shouldn't be so critical, since if there is an actual causal link between file A and B, the difference in timestamps should always be much larger than 100 ns.

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