Simon Josefsson wrote: > This thread reminds me of this poor warning message from make: > > make: Warning: File `Makefile.am' has modification time 7.9e+02 s in the > future
This was already reported and fixed: see [1]. > There are humans that don't instinctual feel whether '7.9e+02 s' is a > time difference in milliseconds or years... > > Compare this to the useful human.c in gnulib to print file sizes as > human readable values, i.e. to print 2.5T instead of 2801285853933. > > Perhaps there is room for a module that works like: Very good idea! I mean, some software like [2][3] already does this, and it makes the output really understandable without thinking. Can you write such a module? The function should probably have a parameter controlling the precision (1 or 2 units); for example 49 hours can be "2 days" or "2 days 1 hour". Bruno [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-make/2007-10/msg00051.html [2] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git [3] http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/gnulib/?root=gnulib
