From: Peter Stephenson <pws@pwstephenson.fsnet.co.uk>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: PATCH: $SECS
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 19:05:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030928180508.399FB8544@pwstephenson.fsnet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "Clint Adams"'s message of "Sun, 28 Sep 2003 12:19:59 EDT." <20030928161959.GA29645@acolyte.scowler.net>
Clint Adams wrote:
> With the following patch, you can do
>
> strftime "%d-%m-%y" $SECS
>
> Is it worth having the second argument be optional?
I think that would be reasonable.
> Is SECS too generic a name?
More than that, I think it's too close to the existing SECONDS, and
doesn't give you enough of a hint about seconds since when. Something
with a vague note that it gives seconds since the epoch would be good.
It's not going to be used on the command line much, so it doesn't have
to be short. How about CALTIME (since it's tied to time()), CALSECONDS,
EPOCHTIME, EPOCHSECONDS, ...?
By the way, I'm away for a week from tomorrow.
--
Peter Stephenson <pws@pwstephenson.fsnet.co.uk>
Work: pws@csr.com
Web: http://www.pwstephenson.fsnet.co.uk
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-28 18:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-19 2:06 PATCH: langinfo module Clint Adams
2002-04-30 18:52 ` PATCH: strftime builtin Clint Adams
2002-05-01 9:38 ` Peter Stephenson
2002-05-26 21:58 ` Clint Adams
2002-05-27 5:05 ` Borsenkow Andrej
[not found] ` <23146.1064741224@athlon>
2003-09-28 16:19 ` PATCH: $SECS Clint Adams
2003-09-28 17:30 ` Bart Schaefer
2003-09-28 18:05 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
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