I'll do a bit more inestigating.
At 01:04 PM 10/31/2003, you wrote:
I don't know. But it's apparently *not* a string that includes a gettimeofday value:
$ perl tim.pl 18446744069800424010 00:00:00.424010 Sunday 00 January 1900
$ perl tim.pl 1844674406980042 04:33:26.980042 Thursday 15 June 2028
$ perl tim.pl 18446744069800 07:05:44.069800 Sunday 02 August 1970
tim.pl is the program shown on p134 of "Optimizing Oracle Performance."
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