> | Taking more than a quarter of 80-char wide terminal for a timestamp > | is a bit too much, IMO. Do we really need 9 characters to print > | seconds? It starts from a single digit on boot and it can increase > | to 2-3 digits while it's still booting but rarely more than that. > | Three digits should be enough for nice looking dmesg.boot. As a > | compromise, can we settle with "% 4jd" for the seconds part? > > A year in seconds are 8 characters. I guess 4-6 is good...
i think we need at least a years worth. .mrg.