Why do time quantities have to be integers?

Internals & Design
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Cool. So would you give your blessings to something like this?

  • algorithms that need absolute accuracy should only accept actual discrete time periods, in their method signature. So they can’t accept floats or some such.
  • algorithms that don’t rely on such high levels of accuracy can accept:
    1. a Number where their docs say it should be seconds/minutes/etc…
    2. a Unitful.jl time unit
    3. DatesTime/Time instance

I think #2 is best in the case where accuracy is not an issue. This way whoever needs the accuracy can enforce it, and whoever wants some flexibility can have it.