Re: isEqual: and hash in NSDate

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 2005-07-22 20:57:12 +0100 Adrian Robert <address@hidden> wrote:

> > > (While we're on this subject, could we change NSEvent timestamps to be in 
> > > seconds like OS X (and OpenStep for that matter), instead of 
> > > milliseconds?)
> >
> > OS X and OPENSTEP return an NSTimeInterval just like GNUstep ... and they 
> > don't round to the second either.  The documentatiuon says 'in seconds', 
> > but I think this just means that the unit of measurement is the second.
>
> Not rounding, but ([eventB timestamp] - [eventA timestamp] on GNUstep) = 
> 1000x (the value on OS X) for the same time difference.  It occasionally 
> affects portability such as when you need to measure the time between two 
> events in user code.

Ah ... that sounds like a bug in the backend library which is creating the 
NSEvent objects, I guess it is setting incorrect timstamp values 
(milliseconds rather than seconds) there.  I don't see any other way the 
timestamps could be wrong.