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Re: #155150: diff -u displays unnecessary zeros after the seconds (fwd)


From: Vincent Lefevre
Subject: Re: #155150: diff -u displays unnecessary zeros after the seconds (fwd)
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 10:24:03 +0200
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On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 22:06:59 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> But I'll omit the ".0"; if there are no fractional digits -- there's
> no need to print a tenths digit.

I agree. But even if the file system supports subsecond precision,
I prefer to have no fractional digits (they are not really useful
and are never (or almost never) used in other contexts).

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