Re: New MILLISECONDS “special” variable?

[Alan Dipert]

Thanks all, EPOCHREALTIME sounds perfect. I’m also glad to have learned
about loadable modules. Really cool.

Alan

On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 5:43 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:

> On 11/2/17 4:09 PM, DJ Mills wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 3:35 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu
> > <mailto:chet.ramey@case.edu>> wrote:
> >
> >     There is a special builtin in the devel branch version
> (EPOCHREALTIME) that
> >     gives you the epoch time with microsecond resolution. It will be in
> the
> >     next release.
> >
> >
> > Out of curiosity, is that functionality going to extend to printf
> '%(fmt)T'
> > ? A %N or
> > so would be lovely
>
> It depends on what strftime(3) provides; the T format just passes what's
> between the parens to strftime().
>
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> Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~
> chet/
>