[Tinyos Core WG] Unit of time in TOS2

[Cory Sharp]

On 10/20/06, Martin Leopold <leopold at diku.dk> wrote:
>
> Hi All.
>
> Apart from this already making a WikiPedia standard - what is the
> consensus - change the name or just update the documentation?
>
> Looking at the names again it seems that the units aren't the same
> either. T32kHz implies 1/s and TMilli implies well ~ms. So it might make
> sense to keep the unit the same too.


This is specified in the TEP,  "Note that the precision names are expressed
as either frequency or period, whichever is convenient."

I'd like for us to keep our eye on the ball -- and that is to clear naming
confusion.  As far as I know, no user has ever been confused as a result of
period vs frequency naming differences.

And what about 32kHz - is it implicitly clear that this is 32768 Hz?


Probably.  With the previous comment about clearing confusion, Milli vs
Milbi is because milliseconds are common and confusion does in fact happen
once or twice a year.  I don't know that 32000 Hz is or ever will be
prevalent.  Other naming options are T32768Hz or T30p5us, etc.  They all
look pretty gross to me.

Going too far down this road is where I start to switch from being
indifferent on TMilbi to preferring the status quo of TMilli and T32khz.

Cory
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