Re: Impossible Database Design?
From: Marshall <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com>
Date: 17 May 2006 07:54:25 -0700
Message-ID: <1147877665.186200.314270_at_j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
> It also
> uses a "Chronons" (discrete points of time) model for temporal data,
> which is rejected by virtually all of the temporal database academics
> because it fails to model time as a continuum.
Date: 17 May 2006 07:54:25 -0700
Message-ID: <1147877665.186200.314270_at_j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
-CELKO- wrote:
>
> It also
> uses a "Chronons" (discrete points of time) model for temporal data,
> which is rejected by virtually all of the temporal database academics
> because it fails to model time as a continuum.
As I mentioned earlier, Java's Date class (irony?) uses a 64 bit long as milliseconds, giving it millisecond resolution, and the ability to represent dates crazy-far into the future. But we would have to describe it as "discrete points of time." Specifically milliseconds.
Marshall Received on Wed May 17 2006 - 16:54:25 CEST