[MERGE] Wait for locks

David Allouche david at allouche.net
Thu Sep 21 19:03:12 BST 2006


Matthieu Moy wrote:
> David Allouche <david at allouche.net> writes:
> 
>> Humans are bad at base-60 arithmetic. What about displaying something a
>> bit more readable?
>>
>>     Will continue to try until 13:46:23
> 
> Agreed for the base-60, but I prefer relative time (will continue for
> 00:59:59), this is quite common as an addition to a progress bar (wget
> & cie). For small amounts of time, (<10 minutes), it avoids having to
> look at your watch to know when it will stop!

Since the code uses note() at the moment, the message will not be
updated. So it's better to print an absolute time so it stays correct as
time passes.

Better output would require a change to the Progress API, later.

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                                                            -- ddaa

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