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@@ -20,15 +20,12 @@ 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 - the nanoseconds portion corresponding to %X, you may now use %:X. - I.e., to print the floating point number of seconds using maximum - precision, use this format string: %X.%:X. Likewise for %Y, %Z and %W. + a full resolution 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 - the same way: %W now expands to seconds since the epoch (or 0 when - not supported), and %:W expands to the nanoseconds portion, or to - 0 if not supported. + the same way as the others. * Noteworthy changes in release 8.6 (2010-10-15) [stable] |