3
$\begingroup$
DateString[{2014, 5, 7, 13, 47, 44.760}, 
  {"Year", "-", "Month", "-", "Day", " ", "Hour", ":", "Minute", ":", "Second", ".", 
  "Millisecond"}]

Returns 2014-05-07 13:47:44.759

The 44.760 can be 44.76 or 44.76` with no difference, replacing it with 44760/1000 does return 2014-05-07 13:47:44.760.

Presumably this is to do with 44.76 not being exactly represented as a machine precision number and milliseconds just cutting out the last 3 digits rather than rounding to 3 decimal places.

Can anyone suggest a simple fix?

$\endgroup$

1 Answer 1

3
$\begingroup$

Ugly but simple, and when you are only interested in milliseconds also correct for this use case.

DateString[{2014, 5, 7, 13, 47, Round[44.760,0.001] + 0.0001}, {"Year", "-", 
  "Month", "-", "Day", " ", "Hour", ":", "Minute", ":", 
  "SecondExact"}]
$\endgroup$

Your Answer

By clicking “Post Your Answer”, you agree to our terms of service and acknowledge you have read our privacy policy.

Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged or ask your own question.