Re: What are the in-kernel functions to format time?

On 3/11/22 10:49, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm looking for a function to convert bintime to a human readable format 
> in the kernel... and what is the usual format we use?
> 
> 
> The use case for this is: if something throws a log from the kernel 
> about a signal, I want to know when it happened, or in terms of code see 
> below (tabs are most probably messed up).
> 
> Do we have some kind of policy in terms of kernel messages and 
> timestamps? Like "do not commit logging with timestamps"? I have the 
> code below because I needed it at least once and think something like 
> this (in a human readably shape) would be beneficial to have in the tree.
> 

Hi,

I think our kernel printer doesn't support this:

sys/kern/subr_prf.c

If you need to extend the format, please check other OS'es too, like 
OpenBSD, NetBSD and Linux, what they support, so there won't be any 
obvious conflicts when moving code cross platforms!

--HPS