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Re: New MILLISECONDS “special” variable?
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: New MILLISECONDS “special” variable? |
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Thu, 2 Nov 2017 20:43:48 -0400 |
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On 11/2/17 4:09 PM, DJ Mills wrote:
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> On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 3:35 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu
> <mailto:chet.ramey@case.edu>> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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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