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#71986
RFC: date @ to support ms.
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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>
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On 7/8/24 21:18, Richard Neill wrote:
> Also, this is an increasingly common format to see as an input
In shell apps? News to me. I thought it was more of a Java and/or
JavaScript thing. Those languages love ms. POSIX, though, prefers ns.
For occasional use one can just use the shell, with no new option
needed. For your example:
$ ms=1720378861258
$ date -d@${ms%???}
Sun Jul 7 21:01:01 CEST 2024
But really, it's better to use a decimal point, as Andreas suggested.
Simple, clear, unambiguous, and no new option needed regardless of
whether the timestamps have ms or μs or ns resolution.
> for date-input, this:
> date --date '1/2/2024'
> is ambiguous
It's ambiguous without context, yes, but the manual documents it so that
provides the context.
https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/Calendar-date-items.html
In GNU projects man pages are typically just quick summaries: for the
details you need the manual.
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