Timestamp

Type: Timestamp

The number of TAI microseconds since Jan 1 00:00:00.000_000, year 0 in ISO 8601:2004

This gives about a range of ±292_470 years since year 0.

This differs from Unix time in 3 ways:

• Epoch is 0000-01-01T00:00:00.000_000 TAI instead of 1970-01-01T00:00:00.000_000 UTC
• Precision is microseconds instead of seconds
• TAI not UTC, meaning that a leap second gets representation, rather than being represented as repeat of previous second as it would be in unix time.

Fields

• micros: long