Re: unique id

[Gustav Brock]

Hi Marcel and Denver
i need additinal the time in milliseconds
like
date 10.05.04.
time 19:25:30
=100504192530
Just a note: those are seconds not milliseconds.
$ZTS has milliseconds, but it is offset by $ZTZ minutes from local time.
Although, for a unique ID, especially in chronological order, $ZTS is 
much better,
particularly if your application is already deployed where there is fast 
time in the summer or where servers could be in different time zones.
That $ZTS is offset by $ZTZ doesn't hurt a thing since it's just a 
number to your application.

 S x=$zts
 Q $ZSTRIP($ZDT(x,3),"*P")_$E($P(x,".",2)+100,2,3)
If you really need both milliseconds and a true unique and sequential time 
but only a two digit resolution, you should not shift the milliseconds by 
100 but round them to tens of milliseconds:

        W $ZTIME($PIECE($ZTIMESTAMP,",",2),1,2)
        14:34:23.56
Then - as I learned from Warlin today and your code example - you can 
apply $ZSTRIP and "*P" to this and concatenate it with $ZDATE with option 
8 to obtain a clean numeric string:

        S x=$zts
        Q $ZDATE($P(x,",",1),8)_$ZSTRIP($ZTIME($P(x,",",2),1,2),"*P")
        2004032614342356
If you need resolution to the millisecond, just expand resolution from two 
to three digits:

        Q $ZDATE($P(x,",",1),8)_$ZSTRIP($ZTIME($P(x,",",2),1,3),"*P")
        20040326143423564
/gustav