GNU bug report logs - #71986
RFC: date @ to support ms.

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Richard Neill <rn214 <at> cam.ac.uk>

Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2024 03:17:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Richard Neill <rn214 <at> cam.ac.uk>
Cc: 71986 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#71986: RFC: date @ to support ms.
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2024 18:33:10 +0200

On Jul 07 2024, Richard Neill wrote:

> I've noticed a lot of systems now return the timestamp in milliseconds
> since the epoch, rather than seconds. This means that e.g.
>
>   date --date='@1720378861258'
>
> will do something rather unexpected!
>
> May I suggest that it would be nice if date had an input format that would
> let me specify that the value is in ms?

$ date --date='@1720378861.258' --rfc-3339=ns
2024-07-07 21:01:01.258000000+02:00

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