[ Thanks to Mike
Golvach for this link. ]
“This week’s improvements are limited to one (I guess
that would just make it a singular “improvement” ;). I received
several suggestions about reliance on awk’s strftime, which helped
us get over the in-sequential time problem, but added some minutes
to the output. For the record, this fix isn’t included in this
version, as problems with formatting need to be completely
reworked, but, to answer the question, the quicker way to do this
without awk is with Gnu date (and it “must” be Gnu date, as, for
instance, Solaris’ version of date doesn’t allow for the same type
of formatting). So, in a version I’m not putting up here because it
isn’t ready yet, we’ve changed:”