On Thu, 08 Sep 2016 23:15:01 +1200, Carlin Bingham wrote:

> The "etime" keyword is currently an alias for "start". posix says it
> should be the amount of time since the program started running, in the
> format [[dd-]hh:]mm:ss, I've encountered some code that doesn't work on
> openbsd because that's what it expects. The commit that added this in
> '97 says it was for XPG4 compat, but XPG4 gives the same definition of
> etime as posix does now.
> 
> Given that the alias is old enough to vote, too late to change this?

Yes, we should fix this, diff looks good.

 - todd

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