how do I format time to include fractions of a second

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Access 2003 - I am trying to create a db of swimming times and athletics
track times, both of which are timed to a hundreth of a second. I can create
a custom format in Excel but can not see how to do it in Access. Help please.
 
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Douglas J. Steele

You can't, at least, not reliably.

The time in Access doesn't have that level of resolution: I think it's only
good to about 3 hundredths of a second.

What you can do is store the time as total hundredths of seconds as a Long
Integer, then write your own function to format that as hh:nn:ss.dd
 
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peregenem

Douglas said:
What you can do is store the time as total hundredths of seconds as a Long
Integer, then write your own function to format that as hh:nn:ss.dd
Click to expand...

Perhaps better would be to use Jet's DECIMAL which is a scaled integer
data type anyhow.
 

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