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Re: `time` doesn't say seconds

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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Ram Rachum <ram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: zsh-workers@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: `time` doesn't say seconds
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2023 09:26:10 -0800
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On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 5:25 AM Ram Rachum <ram@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> If I understand correctly, the 11.230 number is 11.230 seconds, but for some reason it doesn't have "s" after it like 11.41s and 0.90s. I think that it should.

TIMEFMT='%J %U user %S system %P cpu %E total'

The default format instead uses %*E which drops the trailing "s" and
uses HH:MM:SS.TTT instead, but the HH and MM are also dropped when
zero.

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