not a great deal of difference, personally I would stick with seconds since epoch (it is probably slightly faster).
Cheers ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 28/02/2012, at 7:24 PM, Tamar Fraenkel wrote: > Hi! > I have a column family where I use rows as "time buckets". > What I do is take epoc time in seconds, and round it to 1 hour (taking the > result of time_since_epoc_second divided by 3600). > My key validation type is LongType. > I wonder whether it is better to use TimeUUID or even readable string > representation for time? > Thanks, > > -- > Tamar Fraenkel > Senior Software Engineer, TOK Media > > <tokLogo.png> > > ta...@tok-media.com > Tel: +972 2 6409736 > Mob: +972 54 8356490 > Fax: +972 2 5612956 > > >
