Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
I seriously don't belive you do equality comparisons at the 1msec level in real world software. Please provide examples.
You know you're in trouble when PHK and I agree. One would think a (double precision) floating point epsilon test might be what you want. In those cases that demand some sort of archival query, an ISO 8601 string might be appropriate, but one would typically expect queries to be issued on a window about the desired timestamp, or perhaps given a range specification "from 10:03:01.933 to 10:03:02.008" (whether a string, integer or floating point - binary or sexagesimal or BCD for that matter). Rob
