Some predefined annotations are now supported in EPL; see Adding predefined annotations. These can be used to specify default configurations for source timestamps (see Using source timestamps of events).

The Time Format plug-in now has an event wrapper, which should be used in preference to directly calling the plug-in. For detailed information, see Using the TimeFormat Event Library in Developing Apama Applications and the information on the TimeFormat event in the API Reference for EPL (ApamaDoc) .