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sr #109599: Can we have nanosecond timestamps in printf?

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Submitted:  Fri 07 Dec 2018 08:41:48 AM UTC
   
 
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Thu 20 Dec 2018 04:52:59 PM UTC, comment #1: 

If the OS and its strftime(3) implementation support nanoseconds, you can access them using %(...)T.

Bash doesn't implement any of the time formats itself; it just passes them to strftime().

Chet Ramey <chet>
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Fri 07 Dec 2018 08:41:48 AM UTC, original submission:  

For being more accurate in timing things it would be nice to not have to start any external program and use the built in printf to access the timestamp in nanosecond accuracy (yeah, nano seconds is not really needed but you can always reduce from there, hard to get more accuracy later, and its already there).

Other shells seem to support %N for accessing the nanoseconds part of an internal clock_gettime (or similar) call. If the underlying OS doesn't have one that returns nanoseconds it seems to be appropriate to just scale up, a lot of OSs I have seen return nanoseconds but are really just internally using microseconds and multiply by 1000.

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