Is there a high resolution (microsecond, nanosecond) DateTime object available for the CLR?

Question

I have an instrument that stores timestamps the microsecond level, and I need to store those timestamps as part of collecting information from the instrument. Note that I do

Answer 1

You could probably roll your own in various ways.

1.) Create a structure using System.Decimal field as the "backing store".

2.) Create a structure using System.Numerics.BigInteger as backing.

Wrap methods to use System.DateTime for convenient "Parts" (year, month, day,...) Include your own Nanonsecond, Picosecond, Femtosecond, etc., properties and methods.

FYI:

DateTime.MaxValue.Ticks : 3,155,378,975,999,999,999

Decimal.MaxValue : 79,228,162,514,264,337,593,543,950,335

BigInteger : Arbitrarily Large!