Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

I want to calculate diff b/w these starttime and endtime with use of mktime. I need response time in milisecond. I am using mktime to get these times. last three digits are in milisecond

Code:

Starttime 2013-04-03 08:54:19,989
End time  2013-04-03 08:54:39,389

Most systems don't have a mktime for shell programming... What's your system? uname -a

I'm using awk' mktime feature

It can be done by combining parsing and mktime as mktime alone cannot adjust for the millisecs in the input.
Parse the date/time field using gensub and feed it to mktime which gives seconds since the Epoch.
Then convert those seconds into milliseconds and add the ones provided in the input.
Once you have the time in milliseconds subtract the endtime from the starttime.

No you are not - you are using gawk's mktime function. Neither, oark or nawk have a mktime function. Not sure about mawk but i do not think so.

Yes, I am using gawk.

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Btw did you use the steps I listed to come up with a [g]awk script...