Hi Salva,

I'm unaware of any plans to support those. Contributions are always welcome
of course :)

Best regards,

Martijn

On Fri, Nov 25, 2022 at 5:32 AM Salva Alcántara <salcantara...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> As mentioned in the docs
> <https://nightlies.apache.org/flink/flink-docs-release-1.16/docs/dev/datastream/event-time/generating_watermarks/#introduction-to-watermark-strategies>
> :
>
> > Attention: Both timestamps and watermarks are specified as milliseconds
> since the Java epoch of 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z.
>
> Are there any plans for supporting higher time resolutions?
>
> Also, internally, Flink uses the `long` type for the timestamps, so maybe
> the milliseconds assumption is arbitrary and things would actually work
> just fine for higher resolutions provided that they fit into the long type
> (???). I found this SO post:
>
>
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54402759/streaming-data-processing-and-nano-second-time-resolution
>
> which touches upon this but it's a bit old already and there seems to be
> no clear answer in the end. So maybe we could touch base on it.
>
> Regards,
>
> Salva
>

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