Michael Paesold wrote:
It's not about a certain standard. There are so many different ways in
the world to write time units, so in a certain context a standard is
really useful to constrain the format/syntax, but...
This all was about usability of a configuration file, wasn't it? Now,
Peter, you improved that very much with this change. But do you at the
same time want to cripple the usefulness again by insisting on a certain
_syntax_, while the _semantics_ are completely clear to (guessing) 99%
of the people who will changes these settings?
FWIW, I agree entirely.
Regards, Dave
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