From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
To: ljb <ljb220@mindspring.com>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: What is the binary format for timestamps?
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 09:07:52 -0500
Message-ID: <20050408140752.GB15927@wolff.to> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d34l6e$284h$1@news.hub.org>
References: <4255A00F.1010409@innovision.com>
<d34l6e$284h$1@news.hub.org>
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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