From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 658 invoked by alias); 10 Aug 2011 11:41:30 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Workers List List-Post: List-Help: X-Seq: 29665 Received: (qmail 24471 invoked from network); 10 Aug 2011 11:41:28 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW, SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received-SPF: none (ns1.primenet.com.au: domain at csr.com does not designate permitted sender hosts) Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 12:41:20 +0100 From: Peter Stephenson To: "Zsh Hackers' List" Subject: Re: PATCH: zsh/datetime $EPOCHREALTIME Message-ID: <20110810124120.0479177b@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri> In-Reply-To: References: <20110810122137.3a3e4c00@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri> Organization: Cambridge Silicon Radio X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9 (GTK+ 2.22.0; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [10.103.11.26] X-Scanned-By: MailControl A-12-01-02 (www.mailcontrol.com) on 10.68.0.153 On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:37:15 +0200 Mikael Magnusson wrote: > On 10 August 2011 13:21, Peter Stephenson wrote: > > I had a need for the current time to better than one second precision in > > a shell function, which currently (as far as I can see) the shell > > doesn't do. It does for SECONDS, but that's not useful for comparison > > with times used by the rest of the system. > > Curious, I made a similar patch last week but didn't post it yet :) > Your patch looks better though, my variable just had the nanoseconds > part in it, and no docs. I did put a --disable-rt option in mine > though. I'm actually wondering if we ought to be a bit smarter and add an epochrealtime array with the seconds and nanoseconds as elements (guaranteed to be consistent, obviously). Exercise for the reader. -- Peter Stephenson Software Engineer Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070 Cambridge Silicon Radio Limited Churchill House, Cambridge Business Park, Cowley Road, Cambridge, CB4 0WZ, UK Member of the CSR plc group of companies. CSR plc registered in England and Wales, registered number 4187346, registered office Churchill House, Cambridge Business Park, Cowley Road, Cambridge, CB4 0WZ, United Kingdom More information can be found at www.csr.com. Follow CSR on Twitter at http://twitter.com/CSR_PLC and read our blog at www.csr.com/blog