[Bug 1182091] Re: Make TIME field directly accessible

[Ben Franksen via Core-talk <core-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

There should be a way to add special processing for fields in dbCommon
that requires no updates to existing record supports. Then we could add
a "virtual" field to dbCommon that automagically converts the TIME data
to DBF_UINT64 on access. The mechanism to implement that is simple:
instead of calling the record support's special method directly, first
call the one for dbCommon; check via return value if that handled the
field, otherwise invoke the record support's special.

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Title:
  Make TIME field directly accessible

Status in EPICS Base:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Users often request the ability to access the TIME field directly.
  It could be provided as an array of 2 32-bit values, possibly with a specific string in ISO-8601 form say.

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