Re: millisecond time format

[<pl...@pi...>]

On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:00:35 +0100, Ethan Merritt  
<merritt@u.washington.edu> wrote:

> On Friday 22 February 2008 04:35, pl...@pi... wrote:
>>
>> I have some time data I can't see how to format to get it read in
>> correctly. The seconds being decimal notation.
> This is a very long-standing request.  See tracker items
>    536517    Higher resolution in timeseries plot
>   1078852    Flexible usage of geographic coordinates


Yes, that latter request was pretty explicit in terms of nomenclature.

It should be fairly straight forward to %DD as a minimum solution to that  
request to prevent overflow at 24.

Taking the same line , higher precision timescale could use %MS eg  
%HH:%MM:%SS.%MS

internally maybe using a second int for microseconds as in  struct  
timeval  would carry the least overhead.
(Don't forget embedded systems, possibly without an fpu ;) )

Any data requiring finer than microsecond resolution is unlikely to be  
using hours or minutes.

These two , %DD and %MS , would not seem too complex to add and would not  
require massive changes to the input / output specifiers.

Thanks for the reply,
Peter.