From: Stephane Chazelas <Stephane_Chazelas@yahoo.fr>
To: Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: Zsh workers <zsh-workers@sunsite.dk>
Subject: Re: PATCH: support for nanosecond timestamps
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 18:28:27 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071101182827.GB27981@sc.homeunix.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <23800.1193938673@thecus>
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 05:37:53PM +0000, Oliver Kiddle wrote:
> Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> > What about returning floating point numbers for zstat?
>
> I've just looked at the documentation for stat to see how that might
> work. It'd end up returning the string representation rather than a float
> given the current interface. What exactly were you envisaging? It might
> be more useful to have it available with the -F (format) option. The only
> trouble there is that there is no standard for the letters to use in the
> format specifiers. date(1) on Linux has %N for nanoseconds. Apache uses
> %q and %Q for milli and micro seconds. Do you know of any others?
[...]
%N is also used by ksh93:
printf '%(%N)T\n'
And there's %.s or %.# to have sec.nanosec
Cheers,
Stéphane
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-01 18:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-01 15:40 Oliver Kiddle
2007-11-01 15:50 ` Stephane Chazelas
2007-11-01 17:37 ` Oliver Kiddle
2007-11-01 18:28 ` Stephane Chazelas [this message]
2007-11-04 17:14 ` Peter Stephenson
2007-11-05 14:45 ` Oliver Kiddle
2007-11-05 15:26 ` Stephane Chazelas
2007-11-05 15:31 ` Peter Stephenson
2007-11-04 16:46 ` Peter Stephenson
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