Subject: Re: bug#39956: 26.2; improve display of information of M-x list-timers

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2020 17:17:39 +0200

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
> Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2020 10:07:45 +0100
> Cc: ndame <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
> 
> "Basil L. Contovounesios" <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > What about format-seconds?
> >
> >   (format-seconds "%hh %mm %z%ss" 1000) ; => "16m 40s"
> 
> Nice!  I've now redone the list-timers display using this format.

This loses information, because we only display integral seconds, the
fractional seconds are lost.  E.g., try the command in "emacs -Q".

Can we have the accuracy back, without losing human-readable format?

Thanks.