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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2010-11-13 22:02:29 +0100
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2010-11-13 22:02:29 +0100
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doc: tweak NEWS and coreutils.texi
* doc/coreutils.texi (stat invocation): Add sentence-ending period. * NEWS: Correct stat change description: s/floating point //. * cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Update, to match this NEWS change.
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@@ -26,10 +26,10 @@ 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 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.
+ coreutils-8.6, that was deemed unnecessarily disruptive.
+ To obtain a nanosecond-precision 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