Re: timefmt does not have provision for milliseconds

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:

>On Sat, 8 May 2004, Vijayaraj AK wrote:
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>>I was using GNU for plotting function and I wanted to
>>plot time in hour:min:sec:millisecond format. I
>>searched extensively for this kind of format. If this
>>is not defined it would be incredibly useful to have
>>such a format in future release.
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>I suspect it's nowhere near as useful as you think it is.  It's
>practically impossible to actually need both millisecond resolution and an
>entire hour of reach on a single axis --- no output device you're likely
>to use will be able to resolve 3 million positions along a single axis.
>

I'm guessing Vijayaraj basically meant that he wants millisecond 
resolution.  (Even still, if not I'm guessing there are a lot of 
applications that may be synchronized to a clock and watch for short 
transient events and time-stamp the event.  Hence, may want the 
hour/min/sec information along for the ride.)  In any case, if 
millisecond resolution is desired, this is a base 10 unit (as opposed to 
"base 60").  Normal plotting should suffice so long as you don't go 
across a one minute boundary.

Dan