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Sun Feb 19 01:40:51 CET 2012 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-February/116624.html

Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> writes:

> Guido van Rossum wrote:

> > if there is an *actual* causal link between file A and B, the
> > difference in timestamps should always be much larger than 100 ns.
>
> And if there isn't a causal link, simultaneity is relative anyway. To
> Fred sitting at his computer, file A might have been created before
> file B, but to George running from the other end of the building in
> response to an urgent bug report, it could be the other way around.

Does that change if Fred and George are separated in the building by
twenty floors?

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