Larry writes:
> If you do this we might as well add the milliseconds.  Some time we will
> need them and while in that area of code go for both.

Except that milliseconds are already useless for generating any kind of
unique value.  Even microseconds are unsafe on today's systems which are
executing in the neighborhood of 1000 instructions every microsecond
(multi-issue processors running at 100s of MHz).  Today nanoseconds
(.000000001 second, or one American billionth of a second) are still
good, but this will change in the next few years.

A related problem is that once you get to enough resolution to ensure
unique/ordered time stamps, you can no longer represent these values in
convenient form (i.e. 32 bits), but have to go to 64-bit sized data
types, which are inconvenient to manipulate (but that's what MPE does
internally).

G.