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[PATCH] seconds-to-string-approximate

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Message #39 received at 71572 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: jdtsmith <at> gmail.com
Cc: adam <at> alphapapa.net, 71572 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, jonas <at> bernoul.li,
 eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu
Subject: Re: bug#71572: [PATCH] seconds-to-string-approximate
Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2024 09:04:18 +0300

> Cc: adam <at> alphapapa.net, 71572 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, jonas <at> bernoul.li,
>  eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu
> Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2024 08:29:03 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> 
> Basically, this shows that:
> 
>  . mastodon truncates where seconds-to-string rounds
>  . seconds-to-string lacks the "1 hour 11 min" output format
>  . seconds-to-string sometimes produces inaccurate results, as in
>    5.5 => 5.48s
> 
> The last item worries me: can we fix this, please?
> The second item sounds like a useful feature, so maybe an optional
> behavior could provide it as well?

And one more nit: should this function be described in the ELisp
manual?

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