On dmd 2.112, future releases, and LTS

[Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole]

On 03/08/2025 9:51 AM, kdevel wrote:
> On Friday, 1 August 2025 at 21:18:24 UTC, 0xEAB wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>> It’s Win32’s unit of time.
>>>
>>> Do you have any reference to MS documentation which defines "hnsecs"?
>>
>> Sure, check out `FILETIME`:
>> <https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/minwinbase/ns- 
>> minwinbase-filetime>
> 
> My browser cannot find any of the strings "hns" and "hecto" on that page.
> (That tics are 100 ns long is not disputed).

You won't find the name for the unit there.

Hecto nano second is an entirely us creation for the name.

The unit in terms of being 100 ns is not an us creation, which is what 
that page shows.

I am not defending this decision, for my datetime library I went with 
nano seconds.