Understand the critical role of precise timing in market data with Massive. This category covers the importance of accurate timestamps in trading data, synchronization methods, and time-based analysis.
Knowledge Base/Timestamps
Knowledge Base
Timestamps
- Title
- What timezone are Massive's timestamps in?
- Timestamps Category
Timestamps
- Description
- All of them are UTC. Massive returns Unix epoch integers, which carry no time zone at all, so nothing needs converting on the way in. The precision differs by feed: nanoseconds on REST and the flat files, milliseconds on the WebSocket.
