On Jul 07 2024, Richard Neill wrote:

> I've noticed a lot of systems now return the timestamp in milliseconds
> since the epoch, rather than seconds. This means that e.g.
>
>   date --date='@1720378861258'
>
> will do something rather unexpected!
>
> May I suggest that it would be nice if date had an input format that would
> let me specify that the value is in ms?

$ date --date='@1720378861.258' --rfc-3339=ns
2024-07-07 21:01:01.258000000+02:00

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