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The trick is that I wanted something immediately understandable with all my filenames the same length, excluding the pid. :)

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Re^3: Timestamp as a Filename Collection
by atcroft (Abbot) on Sep 11, 2002 at 04:07 UTC

    True, but the current results of time() is on the order of 10e9 seconds, and being 32-bit integer, won't go much larger. But I do understand the part about being understandable. If the contents of the directory are understood anyway, though...