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From: Willie Wong <wwong@Princeton.EDU>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]  Finer grained date output.
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 01:08:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050820050820.GB27684@princeton.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <430692B7.4070701@gmx.net>

On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 04:17:27AM +0200, Marco Matthies wrote:
> Harry Putnam wrote:
> >I know about perl scipting for this but wanted something like the
> >`date' command that is its own dedicated program.
> >
> >Is there a unix tool that outputs a finer grain of time segments?
> 
> man date
> look for nanosecond format, e.g.:
> date +"%N"

The nanosecond option has always puzzled me, if only because on my box
I never get any finer grained output than microseconds... i.e. date
+%N always gives 0 as the last three digits. 

Now technically this computer runs at 2 GHz... so presumably it is
possible to hit the enter key "not exactly on the microsecond". Is
there something in the kernel? or the clock?

W
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-08-20  5:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-20  2:07 [gentoo-user] Finer grained date output Harry Putnam
2005-08-20  2:17 ` Marco Matthies
2005-08-20  2:38   ` [gentoo-user] " Harry Putnam
2005-08-20  2:58     ` Marco Matthies
2005-08-20  5:08   ` Willie Wong [this message]
2005-08-20 11:45     ` [gentoo-user] " Marco Matthies

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