How to make dmesg timestamp human readable

Posted by linuxaria on Nov 13, 2011 9:08 PM EDT
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After the update to Ubuntu 11.10 my wireless goes up and down, and so i’m trying to debug this problem looking into dmesg.

But this brought me to another small issue, dmesg prints timestamps in the form of seconds.nanoseconds since the system booted. And no, there seems to be no -h option to make it human readable. so you should check your boot time and make some calculations to see where the events logged are happened.

This don’t seem so useful ! Let’s see how to have these information in a better format.

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