Re: DT_DATE_TIME_DURATION usage

Berend de Boer <[email protected]> Thu, 29 May 2008 22:41:45 +1200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lang.eiffel.gobo.general
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>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Bezault <ericb-D6Qt/9opevxWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> writes:

    >> Is there any other way to get the seconds between these two
    >> dates?  Perhaps DT_DATE_TIME should have an epoch_time feature
    >> which returns the number of seconds, that would make such
    >> calculations far more trivial.

    Eric> Or you will get overflow because the number of seconds is too
    Eric> large to fit into an integer.

Well, epoch does INTEGER_64 now. And this was another comment, that
perhaps we should move to INTEGER_64 for certain fields, such as seconds
and milliseconds.

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Cheers,

Berend de Boer


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