Re: What is the binary format for timestamps?

Tom Lane wrote:

>Marvin Bellamy <marvin(dot)bellamy(at)innovision(dot)com> writes:
>
>
>>I'm trying to read/write timestamps as binary data, but I'm getting
>>garbage. It looks like there are 8 bytes of timestamp data (if I read
>>the headers correctly), which I had assumed was the time in millis from
>>the PostgreSQL epoch, but my values are way off.
>>
>>
>
>Are you using integer datetimes? It should be either a float8 measured
>in seconds, or an int8 measured in microseconds since the epoch.
>
> regards, tom lane
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I've been treating the timestamp as an integer, not a double. What's a
good way to deal with double/float byte ordering when reading/writing
data from Windows applications?

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