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authorEric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>2010-09-30 16:42:13 -0600
committerEric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>2010-10-01 10:43:41 -0600
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downloadcoreutils-9069af45e691d1252c727da66aa4f3f3c7f1ea29.tar.xz
stat: print timestamps to full resolution
* src/stat.c (epoch_time): New function. (print_stat): Use it for %[WXYZ]. * NEWS: Document this. * tests/touch/60-seconds: Adjust test to match. * tests/misc/stat-birthtime: Likewise.
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@@ -75,6 +75,11 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
merely accepted and ignored, for compatibility. Starting two years
ago, with coreutils-7.0, its use evoked a warning.
+ stat now outputs the full sub-second resolution for the atime,
+ mtime, and ctime values since the Epoch, when using the %X, %Y, and
+ %Z directives of the --format option. This matches the fact that
+ %x, %y, and %z were already doing so for the human-readable variant.
+
touch's --file option is no longer recognized. Use --reference=F (-r)
instead. --file has not been documented for 15 years, and its use has
elicited a warning since coreutils-7.1.