> Seriously, that explanation about different hours is not enough to prevent > at least useful option. > like > sleep -f 1h > (-f means force convert, without it you can see good explanation why sleep > for 1 hour will be not sleep for 1 hour, and etc, and not get sleep at > all.). >
Do one thing, and do it well. What you have proposed involves: * an additional force flag * interpolation of what follows the force flag (does m mean minutes, or months?) * expectations around time, time zones, and what an hours is. That fails the litmus test on complexity for me personally - it seems like a lot of complexity for not much gain. > P.S. There is already non-portable feature in sleep - non-integer, and I'm > sure that no one thought about some financists from various countries, who > used to specify long numbers with separator, e.g. 3.600, and this means for > them one hour and not 3 point 6 seconds. > This isn't a good reason for adding another non-portable feature. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
