On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 09:23:16AM +0000, Geoff Clare wrote: > Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote, on 16 Feb 2020: > > > > On 2/15/20 9:42 PM, Robert Elz wrote: > > > > > Let's design & implement something better, and then have that (eventually) > > > standardised, rather than compromising the standard with this horror. > > > There > > > is of course, no reason that the shells that have chosen to copy ksh's > > > extension cannot continue to do so, no matter how ugly and difficult it > > > is to do. > > > > OK. Let's start with a proposal. The existing syntax will have to stick > > around for backwards compatibility, of course. > > In case you two don't read the teleconference minutes, in Thursday's > meeting we decided to postpone further work on bug 267 for a month to > allow you time to work on this new proposal. > > > (The simplest proposal is to replace the ksh/bash/mksh/zsh(?) `time' with > > `ptime' and go from there.) > > The new name needs to be something that is unlikely to be in use by > applications or users already. I think ptime is not a good candidate, > as it is a likely choice for an existing script, function or alias name. >
System V had 'timex'; perhaps 'timez' would be a good candidate name?
