Re: [Gnumed-devel] Default datetime precision

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 06:41:17PM +0000, Jim Busser wrote:

> At the creation of an encounter, it is sane that GNUmed offers by default, 
> and saves, either
> 
>       now()
> 
> or maybe even better
> 
>       date_trunc('minute', now())

There is no choice in that. All date/time related fields in
the database are declared "timestamp with time zone" thusly
storing full precision down to the microsecond. If they
weren't they COULD NOT store the time which is undesirable.

Karsten
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