2014-12-11 22:00 GMT+01:00 MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com>:
>
> On 2014-12-11 18:33, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>>
>>
>> there are likely to be situations where the caller assumes it
>> generates a six-digit string. I did a little poking around. It seems
>> like "%N" isn't used.
>>
>>  Could the number of digits be specified? You could have "%9f" for
> nanoseconds, "%3f" for milliseconds, etc. The default would be 6
> microseconds for backwards compatibility.


Ruby does that, but use %9N. (a plain %N consume 9 digits by default).

GNU date also use %N, but doesn't allow to specify the number of digits to
consume.
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