Re: Reading SE Audit Trails

You'd think that a "time" value would specify time in some way. If it is an some sort of serial (or sequential integer), then why isn't it called that? Art S. Kagel <kagel@bloomberg.net> wrote in message news:37792A45.331B157F@bloomberg.net... > Brett Schubert wrote: > > > > According to the Informix FAQ part 6.17 (Reading SE Audit Trails), an audit > > file includes five header fields. One of which is described in the FAQ as: > > > > a_time integer Integer internal time value. > > > > My question is? What is this internal time value based on and how do I > > convert this value to a meaniful date/time value. > > If the SE internal time is anything like IDS internal time it is just > an integer with no relation to real time at all. It is a number that > is incremented for each operation so that is is different for every > transaction and operation. > > Art S. Kagel