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LocationTimestamp - AWS IoT

LocationTimestamp

Describes how to interpret an application-defined timestamp value from an MQTT message payload and the precision of that value.

Contents

value

An expression that returns a long epoch time value.

Type: String

Required: Yes

unit

The precision of the timestamp value that results from the expression described in value.

Valid values: SECONDS | MILLISECONDS | MICROSECONDS | NANOSECONDS. The default is MILLISECONDS.

Type: String

Required: No

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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