Re: revised use of column space in "ls"

[Markus Kuhn]

Paul Eggert wrote on 2001-12-21 01:17 UTC:
> We could also remove the trailing zeros from the fractional part of
> the time stamp.

Not just zeros. The proper way to handle this is to query the timer
resolution R and then round to ceil(-log10(R / 1 s)) fractional second
digits. Any additional digit contains no information and the displayed
digits can be used to reconstruct the original exact timestamp.

Markus

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