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From: "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@altlinux.org>
To: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib/timeutils: Add %s (seconds since the Epoch) to parse_timestamp()
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2022 15:57:37 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220907125736.GA17101@altlinux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220907072048.5buz33o2df5cvdiw@ws.net.home>

On Wed, Sep 07, 2022 at 09:20:48AM +0200, Karel Zak wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 07:31:07PM +0300, Péter Ujfalusi wrote:
> > On 06/09/2022 11:47, Karel Zak wrote:
> > > On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 10:04:36AM +0300, Peter Ujfalusi wrote:
> > >>  lib/timeutils.c | 8 ++++++++
> > >>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> > > 
> > > Applied, thanks.
> > 
> > After some tinkering with a script where I needed this, would it make
> > sense to change the way how one should be specifying seconds since the
> > Epoch time to
> > '@'<number>
> 
> Yes, '@' seems more readable. I have no strong opinion about it, maybe
> we can support both convention (with and without @).

I suggest supporting just @seconds, this would also match the behaviour of
date(1) and the gnulib module it uses:

$ date -u -d @1348331662
Sat Sep 22 16:34:22 UTC 2012


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ldv

  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-07 13:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-06  7:04 [PATCH] lib/timeutils: Add %s (seconds since the Epoch) to parse_timestamp() Peter Ujfalusi
2022-09-06  8:47 ` Karel Zak
2022-09-06 16:31   ` Péter Ujfalusi
2022-09-07  7:20     ` Karel Zak
2022-09-07 12:57       ` Dmitry V. Levin [this message]
2022-09-08  9:29       ` Péter Ujfalusi

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