public virtual qa_long getTimestamp()

The message timestamp.

This Timestamp header field contains the time a message was created. It is a coordinated universal time (UTC).

It is not the time the message was actually transmitted, because the actual send may occur later due to transactions or other client-side queuing of messages. It is in units that are natural for the platform. For Windows/PocketPC platforms, the timestamp is a SYSTEMTIME, converted to a FILETIME, which is copied to a qa_long value.

To convert a timestamp ts to SYSTEMTIME for displaying to a user, run the following code:

SYSTEMTIME stime;

FILETIME   ftime;

ULARGE_INTEGER time;

time.QuadPart = ts;

memcpy(&ftime, &time, sizeof(FILETIME));

FileTimeToSystemTime(&ftime, &stime);

For more information about getting and setting message headers and properties, see QAnywhere messages.