[phobos] std.datetime and tick types

[Robert Jacques]

On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 09:52:17 -0400, SHOO <zan77137 at nifty.com> wrote:
> (2010/09/27 20:22), Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> /++
>>      Represents possible units of time.
>>    +/
>> enum TUnit { year, month, week, day, hour, minute, second, millisecond,
>> microsecond, stdTick }

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>> What I'd really like is to find a better name than tick or std tick for  
>> my ticks.
>> What would that be anyway? A deci-microsecond? A centa-nanosecond?  
>> Either name
>> would be horrible.

A hundred nanoseconds would be a deci-microsecond or a hecto-nanosecond.  
Both are used, though hectonanosecond seems to be more popular, both  
generally and with programmers. For example, Apple's Network Time Protocol  
codebase uses the unit. I don't find either name horrible and would prefer  
an actual unit of time in TUnit as opposed to a made up name which I'd  
have to remember is actually a hectonanosecond. Perhaps this is my  
scientific background coming through.