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| author | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2010-11-13 08:02:02 +0100 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2010-11-13 11:40:52 +0100 |
| commit | 4a8e9bf14c33b356680298d29f7321d82d4fde5d (patch) | |
| tree | c0c1501d5338c49629364c24350166ac79396d92 /NEWS | |
| parent | 6568b173db1c98f39a53eadd9b09e0a0e5c11920 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-4a8e9bf14c33b356680298d29f7321d82d4fde5d.tar.xz | |
stat: do not provide variable precision time stamps
* src/stat.c: Don't include fstimeprec.c.
(out_epoch_sec): Don't call fstimeprec.
* NEWS: Update description.
* doc/coreutils.texi: Likewise.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -24,8 +24,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- stat's %X, %Y, and %Z directives once again print only the integer part of seconds since the epoch. This reverts a change from coreutils-8.6, that was deemed unnecessarily disruptive. To obtain - a full resolution time stamp for %X, use %.X; if you want (say) just - 3 fractional digits, use %.3X. Likewise for %Y and %Z. + a nanosecond-precision floating point time stamp for %X use %.X; + if you want (say) just 3 fractional digits, use %.3X. Likewise + for %Y and %Z. stat's new %W format directive would print floating point seconds. However, with the above change to %X, %Y and %Z, we've made %W work |