Sorry, should have said, "If you do not provide one, the CQL layer on the server adds the timestamp", unlike thrift where the timestamp is always client side.
Bill, Glad 1.1.6 fixed your issue. -Jeremiah ________________________________________ From: Eric Evans [eev...@acunu.com] Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2012 4:09 PM To: dev@cassandra.apache.org Subject: Re: Write Timestamps On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 9:13 PM, Jeremiah Jordan <jeremiah.jor...@morningstar.com> wrote: > How are you doing the write? CQL or Thrift? In thrift, the client specifies > the timestamp, and you should always be seeing that as the timestamp. In > CQL, the CQL layer on the server adds the timestamp. For the record, you can supply a timestamp with CQL, same as you can with Thrift. For example: INSERT INTO somedb.sometable (id, given, surname) VALUES ('pgriffith', 'Peter', 'Griffith') USING TIMESTAMP 42; -- Eric Evans Acunu | http://www.acunu.com | @acunu