Re: What is the binary format for timestamps? - Mailing list pgsql-interfaces

From Bruno Wolff III
Subject Re: What is the binary format for timestamps?
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Msg-id 20050408140752.GB15927@wolff.to
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In response to Re: What is the binary format for timestamps?  (ljb <ljb220@mindspring.com>)
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On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 01:02:07 +0000, ljb <ljb220@mindspring.com> wrote:
> 
> A timestamp is returned as an 8-byte big-endian double precision number of
> seconds since POSTGRES_EPOCH_DATE.
> A time is returned as an 8-byte big-endian double precision number of
> seconds since midnight.
> POSTGRES_EPOCH_DATE is January 1, 2000 (2000-01-01).

I believe building with --enable-integer-datetimes will change this.


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