Pablo Sanchez wrote:
> 71062.1056_at_compuserve.com (--CELKO--) wrote:
>>>Of course, since fractions isn't mandatory and precision is
>>>implementation defines, one should be very careful... <<
>>
>>True, but the Federal Government FIPS required at least five decimal
>>places in the seconds.
>
>
> I don't know of any vendor that provides that type of precision on
> their timestamp. Can you provide documentation that shows this
> requirement? I'm curious.
Informix database servers have provided 5 decimal places of seconds in
timestamps since about 1989. Currently, you have to enable that
precision (otherwise you get 0 dp), but it is still available.
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Received on Sun Jan 19 2003 - 22:29:36 CST
