Re: User Petition on Standards to Netscape and Microsoft

[Karl Auerbach <karl at CaveBear.com>]

> The GPS itself usually expresses time as some integer number of whole
> weeks from the epoch (the week of January 6, 1980 being week #0) plus
> seconds within the week (there being 604800 seconds in a week). But
> nothing says we can't reduce things further to a simple integer count
> of seconds from the same epoch. It simplifies calculations, and uses
> bits more efficiently too.  Make the count 64 bits long, and we won't
> have to worry about rollover for some time.

I'd like to suggest that there be sub-second resolution.  That would make
the same time representation useful for those who need to synchronize
media sources (like when lip-synching voice and video).

This could add another 16 to 24 bits to the length.

		--karl--