On 06/11/10 02:54, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 11/04/2010 11:34 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: >> Pádraig Brady wrote: >>> I still slightly prefer just using %.X as >>> it's backwards compat with older coreutils (excluding 8.6). >> >> So do I. > > I built that and tried it out, and found another problem that has been > annoying me for years in other programs: 'stat' prints out unnecessary > trailing zeros for time stamps, when the file system resolution is > coarser than nanosecond resolution. So I figured I'd fix that too, > for 'stat' (other programs can be fixed later). With this fix, %.X > outputs the time stamp but omits trailing zeros if it can infer that > the file system would always put zeros there. If you want a specific > number of zeros, you can use something like %.3X or %.9X (or %.100X :-).
Interesting. So it's variable precision by default $ touch -d '1970-01-01 18:43:33.5000000000' 2; ~/git/t/coreutils/src/stat -c "%.W %.X %.Y %.Z" 2 0.000000000 63813.500000000 63813.500000000 1289052572.699980883 $ touch -d '1970-01-01 18:43:33.5000000000' 2; ~/git/t/coreutils/src/stat -c "%.W %.X %.Y %.Z" 2 0.00000000 63813.50000000 63813.50000000 1289052573.53698077 I like it. BTW you dropped a blank line at the end of the NEWS section. cheers, Pádraig. p.s. I'm marking this bug as done
