what is the time unit of the block timestamps in testrpc?

[drandreaskrueger]

• versions: web3 4.7.2, testrpc 1.3.5, python 3.5.3
• OS: linux

What was wrong?

when I read
web3.eth.getBlock(blockNumber) ["timestamp"]
from two blocks
which were actually (i.e. I measured) produced at 38.8 seconds apart.

and then subtract these timestamps, I get a difference of 7945 units.

Why not 39, or 38800 or 38800000 ?
i.e. anything that remotely resembles {,milli,micro,nano}seconds.

Have a look:

I had hammered 1000 transactions at testrpc-py, which took 38.8 seconds to finish.

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[drandreaskrueger]

• my odd workaround
• the jupyter notebook