Sorry if I'm missing some vital context (I here am new), but if the goal is to include the "s" units in the default output of time, that's just a matter of changing `%*E` to `%E` in the default value of TIMEFMT, right? 

On Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 10:36 PM Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
On Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 1:25 AM Peter Stephenson
<p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
> I don't know if anyone is likely to be automatically matching the
> current format?  Given the variability of this element presumably not.

The doc should be updated, though.  It specifies the default without
the "s".  Your patch also alters the definition of %*E in the value of
TIMEFMT.



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