Re: Timestamps

[Jim Langston <jimlangston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually, wouldn't incrementing the right 3 numbers from 001 to 999 then back
to 001 fix people's program when they want to use a timestamp with a unique
key?

Regards,

Jim Langston

Klein Ron wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> Thanks to those who replied.  The writes actually are occurring in the same
> program and in the same commit cycle.
> 
> We were able to get it to work.  As it turns out, in the d spec, if you
> initialize the field to the default value (0001-01-01.01.01.01.000000) then
> it will fill the microseconds in.  One seemingly strange thing happens
> though the far right 3 positions are always zero and in the manuals it even
> states this.  Just seems odd to have the place if they aren't being used or
> can't be used.
> 
> But all in all it fixed our problem.
> 
> Ron
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