Carlin Bingham wrote: > The "etime" keyword is currently an alias for "start". posix says it > should be the amount of time since the program started running, in the > format [[dd-]hh:]mm:ss, I've encountered some code that doesn't work on > openbsd because that's what it expects. The commit that added this in > '97 says it was for XPG4 compat, but XPG4 gives the same definition of > etime as posix does now. > > Given that the alias is old enough to vote, too late to change this?
I don't think so. The alias was added in a half-hearted effort at compliance, but we should make the output do the right thing. That's obviously what people and scripts expect. The traditional output of 'start' shouldn't be changed, but you've got that covered.
