I am using EPOCHREALTIME and then computing the corresponding human readable
form, that can handle
changes in locale
now=$EPOCHREALTIME
printf -v second '%(%S)T.%s' "${now%[^[:digit:]]*}" "${now#*[^[:digit:]]}"
printf -v minute '%(%M)T' "${now%[^[:digit:]]*}"
printf -v hour '%(%H)T'
Have been using $EPOCHREALTIME but can see that the output is as follows.
1629376497,853634
The utilisation of tho comma `,` is very inconvenient for those who want to do
time
computations. A change towards a period `.` would be the proper way to display
the
variable.
Furthermore, one gets
