trick for time tracking

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Just want to share a nice trick for printing the current date/time info in
lengthy computations, which works under linux:

extern("date>&2")

This command executes the standard "date" tool and redirects its output to
stderr, effectively printing it on the screen by avoiding extern()'s
processing of the standard output.

Regards,
Max

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<div dir=3D"ltr">Just want to share a nice trick for printing the current d=
ate/time info in lengthy=C2=A0computations, which works under linux:<br><di=
v><br></div><div>extern(&quot;date&gt;&amp;2&quot;)</div><div><br></div><di=
v>This command executes the standard &quot;date&quot; tool and redirects it=
s output to stderr, effectively printing it on the screen by avoiding exter=
n()&#39;s processing of the standard output.</div><div><br></div><div>Regar=
ds,</div><div>Max</div><div><br></div></div>

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