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Thu Feb 16 04:12:41 CET 2012 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-February/116539.html

Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> writes:

> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> > It probably isn't worth the bother for things like file timestamps,
> > where the time taken to execute the system call that modifies the
> > file is likely to be several orders of magnitude larger.
>
> Ironically, file timestamps are likely the only place where it
> matters. Read the rest of the thread.

And log message timestamps. The *two* only places where it matters, file
timestamps and log messages.

And communication protocols. The *three* only places –

I'll come in again.

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