dmesg_with_human_timestamps () { $(type -P dmesg) "$@" | perl -w -e 'use strict; my ($uptime) = do { local @ARGV="/proc/uptime";<>}; ($uptime) = ($uptime =~ /^(d+)./); foreach my $line (<>) { printf( ($line=~/^[s*(d+).d+](.+)/) ? ( "[%s]%s ", scalar localtime(time - $uptime + $1), $2 ) : $line ) }' } alias dmesg=dmesg_with_human_timestamps
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13890789/convert-dmesg-timestamp-to-custom-date-format