Re: Why TIME's ud?

Nevermind. I see:

5.3.1 Date and Time of Day Functions
...
SwiftX stores time information internally as an unsigned, double number repre-senting
seconds since midnight. There are 86,400 seconds in a day, so a double
number is required for portability across 16- and 32-bit implementations.

Since I need to keep a log of time on a 32-bit system, I'm wondering if I aught to store the whole double...

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From: swiftx-bounce_at_forth.com [mailto:swiftx-bounce_at_forth.com]On Behalf
Of Dennis W. Bulgrien
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 8:01 AM
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Subject: [swiftx] Why TIME's ud?

@TIME, (TIME), and .TIME take an unsigned double number ud. When is the double utilized since the max number of seconds since
midnight is 86400? Are the 32-bit folks carrying around an extra zero cell for the 16-bit folks?

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