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jzwinck
on Oct 4, 2013
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MongoDB Raises $150 Million at $1.2 Billion Valuat...
Well, some of us have been asking for a native high-resolution time type for three years:
https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-1460
rudiger
on Oct 4, 2013
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Can't you just store it in a regular 64-bit integer and know it's a datetime from your application's logic?
What do you gain with a native, high-resolution datatime type?
bqe
on Oct 4, 2013
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Automatic timezone conversion and the ability to add and subtract dates without first dropping to your 64-bit into. Think DATE_SUB(date time, INTERVAL 1 HOUR) from MySQL for instance.
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