Just curious what sort of progress has been made on this. I see it's on the list for the 5.x milestone. It would be a really nice feature to be able to use.

I'm honestly only in this thread because I want debug to stop automatically returning seconds and instead always return milliseconds.

  ChannelChecker getting channel_id 1656344628 +2ms
  ChannelChecker getting channel_id 891441386 +2ms
  ChannelChecker getting channel_id 2042650534 +1ms
  ChannelChecker getting channel_id 1015526937 +3ms
  ChannelChecker getting channel_id 1649651584 +2s
  ChannelChecker getting channel_id 815734771 +2ms
  ChannelChecker getting channel_id 388112384 +1ms
  ChannelChecker getting channel_id 1290004369 +3ms
  ChannelChecker getting channel_id 1247374628 +1ms
  ChannelChecker getting channel_id 2020239812 +3ms
  ChannelChecker getting channel_id 969553134 +3ms

It's easy to miss that one call took 1000x longer.

@Joshfindit the problem there is that sometimes events don't happen for hours at a time. Millisecond triviality goes out the window at that scale. Hence why we use ms. But I understand if not everyone wants that behavior.

@Qix- It’s your package, it’s bot for me to tell you what’s right for you or other users, that’s just why I’m here. Custom output will let me accomplish it.

I'm honestly only in this thread because I want debug to stop automatically returning seconds and instead always return milliseconds.

Same. Here's a solution:

// JavaScript
debug.humanize = ms => `${ms}ms`;

// TypeScript
function humanize(ms: number): string;
function humanize(ms: string): number;
function humanize(ms: number | string): string | number {
  return `${ms}ms`;
}
debug.humanize = humanize;

Yep @DimitarNestorov's way is currently the "official" way of doing it and is entirely acceptable.

If you stumble across this issue while trying to enable timestamps for GHA log, here is the good bit:

GitHub Actions now provides timestamps by default with "shift + T" in the logs.

Here's how I prepend [ YYYY/MM/DD - HH:mm:ss ] to all debug output lines:

var moment = require('moment');
var debug = require('debug');
debug.formatArgs = formatArgs;
function formatArgs(args) {
    let name = this.namespace;
    let useColors = this.useColors;
    let dateTime = '[' + moment().format('YYYY/MM/DD - HH:mm:ss') + ']';
    if (useColors) {
        let c = this.color;
        let colorCode = '\u001b[3' + (c < 8 ? c : '8;5;' + c);
        let prefix = ' ' + colorCode + ';1m' + name + ' ' + '\u001b[0m';
        args[0] = dateTime + prefix + args[0].split('\n').join('\n' + '                       ' + prefix);
        args.push(colorCode + 'm+' + debug.humanize(this.diff) + '\u001b[0m');
    } else {
        args[0] = dateTime + name + ' ' + args[0].split('\n').join('\n' + '                       ' + name);
    }
}

@SCG82 when I try to do that, name and useColors are undefined
doesn't it require debug.formatArgs = formatArgs.bind(debug) or something (which isn't works as well?

In case anyone needs to strip the output format down to just the content, this worked for me:

function formatArgs(this: debug.Debugger, args: any[]) {
  args.push(debug.humanize(this.diff));
  args.pop();
}
debug.formatArgs = formatArgs;