[Sugar-devel] Best time format for logging?

Manuel Quiñones manuq at laptop.org
Fri Feb 28 12:39:41 EST 2014


Interesting Nagarjuna,

2014-02-28 12:36 GMT-03:00 Nagarjuna G <nagarjun at gnowledge.org>:
> On Friday, February 28, 2014 09:12:58 AM Walter Bender wrote:
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>> It seems time on activity is an oft-requested feature. IMHO, we should
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>> maintain those data in the activity instance metadata like we do
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>> launch times et al. Should be a fairly straight-forward patch.
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>> (My rationale is that making it part of the activity metadata, it is
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>> accessible to the Sugar user -- part of the effort to "make learning
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>> visible" to the learner, not just the administrator.)
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> On of the requirements of our work is to have the log time in millisecond,
> or microseconds if possible. We would like to measure response times in Chat
> activity. Often, multiple responses can be seen within one second when a
> group is chatting, which does not allow us to calculate the response times.
> We did tweak our local instance of Chat activity to write logs with
> microseconds. But it will be good if this feature is available across all
> activities.

I guess it depends on the data.  Nanoseconds can be obtained with command:

date +%s.%N
1393609027.074597846

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