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Re: EPOCHSECONDS

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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: EPOCHSECONDS
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:25:10 +0100
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Atom Smasher wrote:
> would it be reasonable to expect EPOCHSECONDS (zsh/datetime) to allow the 
> same `typeset -F` trick as SECONDS? is that feasible?

I don't know about reasonable, but it looks like it should be possible
since gettimeofday() provides that information.  As zsh uses double
precision for floating point numbers it should be useful for a good few
centuries, too.

It needs some changes to the main shell since SECONDS is a special case
in the typeset code.  It would be neater to make it a flag.  I think
we're going to need a second flags word in the parameter structure
before too long.

pws

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