Re: [PATCH 3/6] utmpdump: use iso-8601 timestamp format with subsecond accuracy

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On 24 June 2016 at 10:27, Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 09:40:34PM +0100, Sami Kerola wrote:
>> Newer 'struct utmp' is using 'struct timeval' to represent login and logout
>> times, so include the maximum accuracy to textual utmp format.  Notice that
>> this change does not remove support of converting earlier textual formats
>> back to binary.  But conversions from binary to former format will no longer
>> be available.
>
> It would be also nice to document that utmpdump is able to read
> textual utmp format generated by the current utmpdump version only and
> that we don't maintain any backward compatibility for the textual
> output.
>
> The only binary version of the utmp is standardized.

Fair point. How about something like

https://github.com/kerolasa/lelux-utiliteetit/commit/3d47107de5d04fe2803827d3e24c227a18d1a4b0

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Sami Kerola
http://www.iki.fi/kerolasa/
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