Floating point clocks do lose precision after long enough time though; see https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2012/02/13/dont-store-that-in-a-float/ https://rand

Floating point clocks do lose precision after long enough time though; see https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2012/02/13/dont-store-that-in-a-float/ https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2012/02/13/dont-store-that... Storing floating point coordinates for example is what causes the "farlands" world generation behavior in Minecraft, for example.