On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 02:18:27AM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > Since one of the reasons for not displaying the seconds is that you > really don't care that much about to that degree of accuracy, I'm not > entirely convinced it's worth complicating the timer handling to deal > with it. I'll leave the bug open a little while longer while I think > about it.
Just because it's not displaying to a particular accuracy doesn't mean it shouldn't be accurate to at least seconds. There are a variety of reasons not to actually display beyond minutes including distraction to the user, and on slow targets, the CPU overhead of updating the display. -p -- Paul Gotch -------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
