Re: manpage mentions old TIMEFMT

[Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 16:32:48 +0200
> Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> Finally, %X and %D are rubbish on Linux (but GNU time(1) always shows
>> >> 0 for them).
>> 
>> I'd prefer if they were 0 instead of -9223372036854775808...
>
> I don't know where this is coming from, but the shell does initialise
> the structure when it's created, so something in the shell is actually
> setting a value --- unless it's the effect of dividing by a zero total
> time.

That was indeed the case:

juno ~% TIMEFMT="%X %D %E"
juno ~% time sleep 0
-9223372036854775808 -9223372036854775808 0.00s
juno ~% time sleep 1
0 0 1.01s

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