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 =item C<double> must hold a time value in seconds with enough accuracy
 The type C<double> is used to represent timestamps. It is required to
-have at least 51 bits of mantissa (and 9 bits of exponent), which is good
+have at least 51 bits of mantissa (and 9 bits of exponent), which is
-enough for at least into the year 4000. This requirement is fulfilled by
+good enough for at least into the year 4000 with millisecond accuracy
+(the design goal for libev). This requirement is overfulfilled by
-implementations implementing IEEE 754, which is basically all existing
+implementations using IEEE 754, which is basically all existing ones. With
-ones. With IEEE 754 doubles, you get microsecond accuracy until at least
+IEEE 754 doubles, you get microsecond accuracy until at least 2200.
-2200.
 =back
 If you know of other additional requirements drop me a note.

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