Re: Difference between EPOCHREALTIME and EPOCHSECONDS

From	Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Re: Difference between EPOCHREALTIME and EPOCHSECONDS
Date	2020-04-14 15:50 -0400
Organization	ITS, Case Western Reserve University
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On 4/14/20 1:43 PM, Martin Schulte wrote:
> Hello Chet, hello Felix, hello all!
> 
>>> Bash Version: 5.0
>>> Patch Level: 16
>>> Release Status: release
>>>
>>> Description:
>>>         Integer part of $EPOCHREALTIME could increase more than 8000
>>> microseconds before $EPOCHSECONDS
>>
>> It's the difference between time() and gettimeofday().

EPOCHSECONDS is the analog of SECONDS, with the difference being the
starting point.

EPOCHREALTIME is supposed to be the thing you use if you want additional
precision than seconds granularity.

-- 
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		 ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/

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