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Re: PATCH: simplify printing of time stamps
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Urs Thuermann |
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Re: PATCH: simplify printing of time stamps |
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15 Apr 2013 11:14:21 +0200 |
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James Youngman <address@hidden> writes:
> I like the idea, and the added support for field widths could be useful.
>
>
> > I would also suggest reverting the change in findutils-4.3.3 that %TT
> > and %TS print nanosecond resolution. This change makes it difficult
> > to only print the seconds in the minute without nanoseconds. With
> > this patch the user could then achieve the same effect using %TT.%TN
> > or %TS.%TN, respecitvely.
>
> Perhaps this would have been a better way to do things in the first
> place, but I'm a bit reluctant to simply revert the change in case
> someone is relying on it (since this approach also gives no transition
> path).
Since there weren't apparently any objections to change the behavior
when 4.3.3 was released I wonder why there's now reluctance to revert
the change. The forward change did not even include a way to get the
old output, e.g. there was no way to print the seconds in the minute
without nanoseconds. My patch provides both possibilities using
either %TS or %TS.%TN.
> Do you have any suggestions for how we should proceed in making this
> change?
One could add an environment variable to control whether the behavior
of findutils-4.3.3 or the older/newer behavior is desired. This would
be very easy since we would only need to set different nstrftime()
format strings for %TT and %TS.
BTW, in the meantime I have made the patch against the git repository
which has changed considerably since the last release.
urs
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