Re: [Quickfix-developers] Millisecond resolution in UTCTimeStamp

[Joerg T. <Joe...@ma...>]

Daniel May wrote:
> My changes only add milliseconds if the BeginString in the message
> header is >= FIX.4.2 .  
> The old conversion routines do NOT throw an exception if there are
> milliseconds in the time stamp, they just get quietly
> ignored. The call to strptime() was not bothered by them.  My opinion
> would be that anyone talking to a > FIX.4.2 connection
> needs to be prepared to process milliseconds per the specification.
> 
> I will add the configuration setting if you still think it is needed.

IMHO, you should add this option. There are other options (e.g. for out
of order fields) which disable FIX compliant behaviour to cope with the
pecularities of the different FIX engines.

Cheers, Jörg

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