Re: Potentially misleading documentation of SECONDS variable

[Chet Ramey]

On 8/6/24 12:25 PM, Koichi Murase wrote:

> diff --git a/doc/bash.1 b/doc/bash.1
> index 1f0a23d3..3ace21e9 100644
> --- a/doc/bash.1
> +++ b/doc/bash.1
> @@ -2091,7 +2091,7 @@ the value returned upon subsequent
>   references is
>   the number of seconds since the assignment plus the value assigned.
>   The number of seconds at shell invocation and the current time are always
> -determined by querying the system clock.
> +determined by querying the system clock at the resolution of a second.

This is not unreasonable.

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