# What is Time's precision and does it support microsecond?

**URL:** <https://forum.canton.network/t/what-is-times-precision-and-does-it-support-microsecond/555>\
**Category:** App Development\
**Created:** [May 29, 2020, 3:32am UTC](https://forum.canton.network/t/what-is-times-precision-and-does-it-support-microsecond/555 "2020-05-29T03:32:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![bernhard](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.canton.network/bernhard/32/356_2.png) [@bernhard](https://forum.canton.network/u/bernhard)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 7:30am UTC](https://forum.canton.network/t/what-is-times-precision-and-does-it-support-microsecond/555/3 "2020-05-29T07:30:57Z")

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I had a look at the answer @Luciano linked and found it wanting. Have look at the example in my answer [here](https://discuss.daml.com/t/time-with-millisecond-precision/314/3) on how to extract microseconds from times and dates.

Note that ledger time is a fuzzy concept, though. If your business logic starts relying on times in the second range, you are probably going to run into contention and race conditions.

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