Time Indexing Core

The Time Indexing Core provides the main facilities and operations of Time Indexing.

Index Operations

These operations include operations on the index, such as:

• opening, creating, and closing an index
• adding items to an index
• retrieving items from an index
• selecting a range of items from an index
• navigating through the index

Time Operations

There are many functions in the system to spcecify and manipulate time and timestamps, such as:

• specifying times to different scales, from nanoseconds upto millenia
• adding and subtracting times from one another
• determining a new time from a given time by giving a time specification, such as end of day, end of week, start of hour, and so on
• specifying time intervals, which have a start time and end time
• determining a new interval, from a given time and 2 time specifications
• timestamp formatting