Andre Albsmeier <[email protected]> wrote: > FWIW, this is a patch for dmesg(1) I use. You can enable timestamp > conversion using -t and optionally specify a different output format > using -f "fmt". > > If interested for inclusion in base, I could try to re-format it > and come up with a manpage diff...
I'vw been meaning to do that for some time, so cool, now I don't have to :-) I am not able to test the patch at the moment, but I looked at the patch itself, and I like it. I like how you replace the numerical uptime with the date/time (that's what I was planning on doing), but the addition of the time formatting option is a nice touch I hadn't thought of doing! I think this would make a nice addition to base dmesg, and I think Warner was talking about getting proper datestamps in dmesg output a while ago (though I'm not sure whether he meant at the dmesg presentation side, or a sysctl to place the timestamp in the kernel-buffer messsage itself) Hopefully I haven't got this wrong, and he can elaborate. Cheers, Jamie
