From: KOSAKI Motohiro Date: 2013-03-16T06:12:51+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:53463] Re: [CommonRuby - Feature #8096] introduce Time.current_timestamp (3/15/13 4:36 PM), vipulnsward (Vipul Amler) wrote: > > Issue #8096 has been updated by vipulnsward (Vipul Amler). > > > =begin > It could be any number of purposes. On top of my head I could think of remote systems, timestamps persisted to Databases, Event marking, Security Systems, Time conversions, etc (Although these are very bad examples) > > Maybe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timestamping_(computing) or something similar would shed more light on this. > =end For this purpose, second is not enough accuracy. Which software want such inaccuracy feature?