[Bug 1861] New: date doesn't support '%N'

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https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=1861

           Summary: date doesn't support '%N'
           Product: Busybox
           Version: 1.13.x
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P5
         Component: Standard Compliance
        AssignedTo: unassigned at busybox.net
        ReportedBy: fraterbugzilla at hetemail.com
                CC: busybox-cvs at busybox.net
   Estimated Hours: 0.0


I would like to have support for 'date +%s.%N' to get nanoseconds...
nanoseconds is not really what I'm after, but I do like to have milliseconds so
I can use it in scripts like this:

start=`date +%s.%N`
sleep 1
echo "`date +%s.%N` - ${start}" | bc
echo "`date +%s.%N` - ${start}" | bc | awk '{printf "%.2f\n", $0}' 

I'm using busybox 1.13 on DD-WRT (standard shell there).

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