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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@baesystems.com>
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Subject: Re: Inserting Calendar.Time in a database
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Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> It is a requirement when UTC is used for time stamping.

sounds more like a requierment of your system than of UTC itself to me, i.e.
each loggable event must be uniquely tagged. You can always have a suitably
faster counter (with a know Fx and usually '0' at power on :-) and then add
this to a UTS synchronisation event.