No Miliseconds Support - Laziness or Incompetence?

[oerdem19]

There is another topics which is almost 6 years old.

Many institutions, especially in finance area, uses milliseconds level data.

Alteryx still not supporting miliseconds level data in time fields after 6 years of discussions.

Which seems at first a bit shocking at this time/moment but as I read the other topic it seems more like incompetence on part of Alteryx.

What does everyone think?

https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Designer-Ideas/Add-DateTime-type-with-milliseconds/idi-p/20...

[dougperez]

Hello @oerdem19 
You can submit an idea here: https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Designer-Ideas/idb-p/product-ideas

[IraWatt]

Yeah a separate date time data type which adds more precision would be good. You can definitely work round it by using a integer column and use Epoch time or some integer time equivalent. It would be a good idea to suggest on the ideas board @oerdem19  https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Designer-Ideas/idb-p/product-ideas 

[oerdem19]

There is a 6 year old post with many people commenting on it. I think it is a bit late for idea suggestion stage.

[MarqueeCrew]

@SeanAdams ,

 someone agrees with you!

[dougperez]

@oerdem19 I didn't find any post in the idea forum, so it's not a bit late

[oerdem19]

https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Designer-Ideas/Add-DateTime-type-with-milliseconds/idi-p/20...

[dougperez]

Wow, since 2016 and still under review? 

[TonyaS]

 Please check the linked post: https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Designer-Ideas/Add-DateTime-type-with-milliseconds/idi-p/20... 
status has been updated to Accepted. 

Please email me if you would like to be included in the Public Preview including the DateTime with Milliseconds feature when it is available: tonya.smith@alteryx.com 

I've seen some comments adding in a desire for Timezone support. Someone may want to submit a separate idea for Timezones. Those cannot be done in scope of a single feature.