GNU bug report logs - #39956
26.2; improve display of information of M-x list-timers

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: ndame <emacsuser <at> freemail.hu>

Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2020 16:55:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Found in version 26.2

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #30 received at 39956 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: contovob <at> tcd.ie, emacsuser <at> freemail.hu, 39956 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#39956: 26.2; improve display of information of M-x list-timers
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2020 17:17:39 +0200

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2020 10:07:45 +0100
> Cc: ndame <emacsuser <at> freemail.hu>, 39956 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie> 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.
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