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bug#39956: 26.2; improve display of information of M-x list-timers
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#39956: 26.2; improve display of information of M-x list-timers |
Date: |
Tue, 27 Oct 2020 11:05:06 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
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?
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- bug#39956: 26.2; improve display of information of M-x list-timers,
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