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program milliseconds type BasicProgram{} myString string; function main() fTimeStamp timeStamp("yyyymmddhhmmssffffff"); fTimeStamp = "20041112134705123456"; myString = stringLib.format(fTimeStamp, "EEE, dd MMM yyyy hh:mm:ss:SSSSSS Z"); SysLib.writeStdout("Should be Fri, 12 Nov 2004 01:47:05:123456 -0500 > " + myString); end end Should be: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 01:47:05:123456 -0500 EDT returns: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 01:47:05:000000 -0500
After much investigating I found that there were a couple errors in the runtime code and that we need to document a restriction in EDT. The restriction is that the runtime code uses a Calendar object to store the TimeStamp. This object can only store milliseconds. RBD was able to store microseconds. Because of this, EDT can only keep 3 digits of precision in regards to fractions of a second. So, for the testcase given, EDT can only return: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 01:47:05:123000 -0500 I believe this is the same restriction that existed for javascript in RBD. I have made changes to the following runtime classes to fix the other problems, and allow us to actually maintain the 3 digits: StringLib StrLib (recompile/regenerated from egl source) ETimeStamp
Verified in 20111017 build. I'm assuming this restriction is OK with everyone.
Brenda, could you verify the behavior in javascript? This is inconsistent from the Etimestamp.egl's api definitions, where in there, 1. it states 6 digits for fractions of seconds. 2. it says "One separator character must appear in between each field", the example code below has no separator character. is it another bug? /** * {@Operation narrow} Converts a string to a timestamp. The string is parsed * by searching for the timestamp fields specified in the pattern, in order * from years down to fractions of seconds. Each field from the pattern must * be present in the string. Years must be represented with four digits, * fractions of seconds with six digits, and other fields with two digits. * One separator character must appear in between each field. Any character * may be used as a separator, and the separators do not have to match. * * @throws TypeCastException if the string can't be parsed into a timestamp or the pattern is invalid. */ static function asTimestamp(value EString in, pattern EString in) returns (ETimestamp) {@Operation{"narrow"}};
