--- libev/ev.pod	2011/06/13 09:52:36	1.375
+++ libev/ev.pod	2011/06/14 07:23:46	1.376
@@ -5050,8 +5050,12 @@
 have at least 51 bits of mantissa (and 9 bits of exponent), which is
 good enough for at least into the year 4000 with millisecond accuracy
 (the design goal for libev). This requirement is overfulfilled by
-implementations using IEEE 754, which is basically all existing ones. With
-IEEE 754 doubles, you get microsecond accuracy until at least 2200.
+implementations using IEEE 754, which is basically all existing ones.
+
+With IEEE 754 doubles, you get microsecond accuracy until at least the
+year 2255 (and millisecond accuray till the year 287396 - by then, libev
+is either obsolete or somebody patched it to use C<long double> or
+something like that, just kidding).
 
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