Re: [FEATURE REQUEST] Filter-branch extend progress with a simple estimated time remaning

> On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 5:15 AM, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 11:00 PM, Gabor Bernat <bernat@primeranks.net> wrote:
>>> Reading after it, I think the most close we can get with this is, awk
>>> 'BEGIN { print strftime("%c", 1271603087); }; and just ignore setting
>>> this value (and avoid displaying it) if that fails too. Do you agree?
>>
>> strftime() in awk is a GNU-ism. It doesn't exist in awk on Mac OS X or
>> FreeBSD, or even the default awk on Linux (which is mawk on Linux
>> installations I've checked).
>>
>> Most portable likely would be Perl, however, that's probably too
>> heavyweight inside a loop like this, even if called only once each N
>> iterations.
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2445198/get-seconds-since-epoch-in-any-posix-compliant-shell
> Found this,
>
> awk 'BEGIN{srand();print srand()}'
>
> srand() in awk returns the previous seed value, and calling it without
> an argument sets it to time of day, so the above sequence should
> return seconds since the epoch, or at least something in seconds that
> is relative to a fixed point which is all that's needed in this
> thread.