From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: ndame <emacsuser@freemail.hu>
Cc: 39956@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#39956: 26.2; improve display of information of M-x list-timers
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 11:05:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eelkougd.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AyVqrQ.UXCvsDrlVPQl.6Sylilev45PvMQcpPZ@freemail.hu> (ndame's message of "Fri, 6 Mar 2020 16:50:09 +0000 (GMT)")
ndame <emacsuser@freemail.hu> writes:
> The first thing which wasn't obvious first that the Next column displays
> the time in seconds, but the Repeat column uses minutes, though it's
> not indicated anywhere in the header that they use different units.
This has been changed in Emacs 28 to be consistent (in seconds).
> Generally, the best solution could be to use days, hours, minutes,
> seconds format, instead of displaying floating point values.
>
> E.g this line
>
> 195.08 5.00 savehist-autosave
>
> could be more readable like this
>
> 3m 15.08s 5m savehist-autosave
>
> Or this one
>
> 26479.43 1440.00 run-hooks
>
> like this
>
> 7h 21m 19.43s 1d run-hooks
Yes, that would be nicer. Anybody else got an opinion here? And does
Emacs have a nice format-seconds-human-readable function somewhere?
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-06 16:50 bug#39956: 26.2; improve display of information of M-x list-timers ndame
[not found] ` <handler.39956.B.15835136805690.ack@debbugs.gnu.org>
2020-03-07 22:03 ` ndame
2020-10-27 10:05 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-27 10:05 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2020-10-27 10:23 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2020-10-28 9:07 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-28 15:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-28 13:39 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-10-30 10:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-30 10:06 ` bug#39956: (no subject) Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-30 11:11 ` bug#39956: 26.2; improve display of information of M-x list-timers Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-30 14:50 ` Mattias Engdegård
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