title: Mac OS date command - getting higher temporal resolution
body: <p>I am trying to use the date command in Terminal on multiple Mac OS X machines that are synced via NTP to synchronize some code in a program. Essentially I am running a program...</p>
  
  <p>MyProgram with arguments[date]</p>
  
  <p>I can get date to give me the seconds since the Unix epoch with the %M specifier.</p>
  
  <p>When I try to use %N to get nanosecond resolution, date just returns N. Is there anyway to get date to give me finer then second resolution? I wouldn't even mind passing two arguments such as</p>
  
  <p>(date +%M):arg2</p>
  
  <p>And then converting units in the program. </p>
  
  <p>Many thanks in advance!</p>
  
  <p>%N specifier listed here: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_(Unix)" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_(Unix)</a></p>