Alex Ott created CASSANDRA-14853:
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             Summary: Change default timestamp format to output only 
milliseconds, not microseconds
                 Key: CASSANDRA-14853
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-14853
             Project: Cassandra
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: Libraries
         Environment: Reproduced in trunk
            Reporter: Alex Ott


By default cqlsh outputs the timestamp column with microseconds precision, like 
this:

{noformat}
cqlsh:test> create table t1(tm timestamp primary key, t text);
cqlsh:test> insert into t1(tm, t) values(toTimestamp(now()), 't');
cqlsh:test> insert into t1(tm, t) values(toTimestamp(now()), 't2');
cqlsh:test> SELECT * from t1;

 tm                              | t
---------------------------------+----
 2018-10-27 18:01:54.738000+0000 | t2
 2018-10-27 18:01:52.599000+0000 |  t

(2 rows)

{noformat}

But if I want to use the value that is output on the screen in my query, I get 
an error:

{noformat}
cqlsh:test> select * from t1 where tm = '2018-10-27 18:01:54.738000+0000';
InvalidRequest: Error from server: code=2200 [Invalid query] message="Unable to 
coerce '2018-10-27 18:01:54.738000+0000' to a formatted date (long)"
{noformat}

But if I manually round it to milliseconds, then everything works:

{noformat}
cqlsh:test> select * from t1 where tm = '2018-10-27 18:01:54.738+0000';

 tm                              | t
---------------------------------+----
 2018-10-27 18:01:54.738000+0000 | t2

(1 rows)
{noformat}

It would be much easier user's experience if we use the same format for output 
& input data, because right now this leads to errors, that often not really 
understandable by novice users.

P.S. I know about cqlshrc, but not every user has it configured.



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