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+<?php
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ *
+ * @package log4php
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Returns the number of milliseconds elapsed since the start of the
+ * application until the creation of the logging event.
+ *
+ * @package log4php
+ * @subpackage pattern
+ * @version $Revision: 1379731 $
+ * @since 2.3
+ */
+class LoggerPatternConverterRelative extends LoggerPatternConverter {
+
+    public function convert(LoggerLoggingEvent $event) {
+        $ts = $event->getRelativeTime();
+        return number_format($ts, 4);
+    }
+}