Get time in milliseconds or nanoseconds

[alinik]

Hi,

In Linux we can use the command: "date +%T+%N" to get the time in nanoseconds. This command does not seem to be working in ESXi's SSH shell.

Is there any other solution for getting the time in high precision?

I am doing some experiments that's why I need this accuracy.

Thanks,

Ali

[William Lam]

The "date" command found on ESXi is not the same as your normal GNU date command, it's from Busybox.

However, you could get use python to get higher precision.

#!/bin/python

import time

print "%.20f" % time.time()

~ # date +%s
1341218714

~ # ./getTime.py
1341218718.30932903289794921875

Just out of curiosity, what type of experiments are you doing within the ESXi Shell that has these requirements?

[alinik]

Thanks for the answer.

Actually I am doing some experiments with VMware HA, so I just want to have the time of doing stuff in ESXi shell like kill the VM process.