Dana Diederich wrote:
Can anyone share and/or comment about the use of Epoch time, especially theI use Epoch time myself, except where I use TIMESTAMP to record last-updated values automatically (and select it with UNIX_TIMESTAMP(...)" every time.
hazards? I'm asking because I want to make sure that I haven't built a
comfortable little box that un-necessarily excludes some useful functions.
I personally prefer TAI64 time (sub-second precision; see http://cr.yp.to/libtai/tai64.html). For a comparison of how this differs from UNIX time, see http://cr.yp.to/proto/utctai.html at the same site. I'm surprised SQL hasn't been updated to support new time formats yet, but oh well.
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Michael T. Babcock
C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd.
http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock
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