suggested addition to 'date'

[Julian Elischer]

Aleksey Perov wrote:

>Julian Elischer wrote:
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>>At various times I've wanted to add timestamps to logfiles as they are 
>>generated..
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>This wheel has been invented million years ago.
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>Install DJB's daemontools from ports, then run
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>$ yes | tai64n | tai64nlocal
>2006-08-16 13:13:50.001417500 y
>2006-08-16 13:13:50.001421500 y
>2006-08-16 13:13:50.001424500 y
>2006-08-16 13:13:50.001428500 y
>2006-08-16 13:13:50.001431500 y
>2006-08-16 13:13:50.001434500 y
>2006-08-16 13:13:50.001437500 y
>2006-08-16 13:13:50.001441500 y
>2006-08-16 13:13:50.001444500 y
>2006-08-16 13:13:50.001447500 y
>2006-08-16 13:13:50.001451500 y
>2006-08-16 13:13:50.001454500 y
>2006-08-16 13:13:50.001458500 y
>2006-08-16 13:13:50.001461500 y
>^C
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>and have a nice day :-)
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I can not install ports onto these machines. They are appliances.

I will simply put the unhancement in out own cvs tree, and the 
enhancement will be private.
I'm still comletely amazed that no-one but me thinks this is a good idea 
as it seems absolutly
obvious to me  and it doesn't affect date's usual behaviour in the 
slightest.