How to get the time in nanosecond with adb

[Mario Denote]

Hi
I'm interested to retrieve time in nanoseconds

I tried

$ adb shell date +%s_%N

but it doesn't work. output is (1367416707_N)
Any suggest?

Thanks

[Glenn Kasten]

You can write something to get what you need, using http://linux.die.net/man/3/clock_gettime 

On Wednesday, May 1, 2013 7:49:06 AM UTC-7, coax...@gmail.com wrote:

Android is not GNU, i.e. %N is not a standard option for date. Not that you're going to get very good nanosecond accuracy from the command line anyway...

[Mario Denote]

But is there an option like %N?. My goal is not accuracy but only see the nanosecond value of the clock

On Wednesday, May 1, 2013 4:49:06 PM UTC+2, coax...@gmail.com wrote:

Android is not GNU, i.e. %N is not a standard option for date. Not that you're going to get very good nanosecond accuracy from the command line anyway...

On Wednesday, May 1, 2013 7:43:44 AM UTC-5, Mario Denote wrote:

[Kristopher Micinski]

Wait... How is that statement at all consistent?

If you want nanosecond accuracy, why should accuracy not be a huge
factor? Accuracy isn't the same as precision, but there are so many
factors in play (e.g., garbage collection) that you really should give
some details as to what you want to do with this information: maybe
there is a better way to more accurately collect timing information
for whatever you want to do.

Kris

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[Mario Denote]

I have to compare two clocks of different devices. I want estimate the drift beetwen two clock.
Now i can retrieve the time in seconds (no drift)
Accuracy is not a goal but i want to see the drift with a more precision than seconds.