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which fits the DTM pattern. Will the validator be expcting times only to YYYYMMDDHHMMSS precision or less?

April 26, 2017DTM Pattern precision times Validator

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which fits the DTM pattern. Will the validator be expcting times only to YYYYMMDDHHMMSS precision or less?

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There are several HL7 date-time datatypes. In XDS the HL7 V2.5 DTM definition is used, not the TS definition. The TS definition allows for ^ component, but DTM does not. However, I think the bulk of the question has to do with the fractional time part. XDS could include the [.S[S[S[S]]]] part in the description of DTM in the specificaiton. However it is of limited use for registry purposes, except to deal with diagnostics. Even then, XDS does not require any clock precision better than 1s of (using CT allows for SNTP which is limited to 1s), so anything after the second is potentially only what the submitter thinks, not what the client and registry agree upon.