[erlang-questions] why a timestamp 3-tuple

[Fred Hebert]

If I recall, that representation dates back before Erlang could actually
represent it as one large number. I don't think there's much of an advantage
with the 3-tuple.

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Joel Reymont <joelr1@REDACTED> wrote:

> I was wondering about the best way to convert the output from erlang:now(),
> e.g. {A, B, C} to a single number. It appears that I can just do (A *
> 1000000 + B) * 1000000 + C.
>
> What is the advantage to keeping timestamps as a 3-tuple?
>
>        Thanks, Joel
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