Re: Bug#645594: This is not a bug, it's a feature!
pj@pjb.com.au, le Sun 13 Nov 2011 07:00:40 +1000, a écrit :
> Greetings. I don't like to intervene in this, but ...
>
> Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > It seems to me that people usually just look at minutes,
> > not seconds, and would thus accept 4:30:59 as "exactly"
> > half past four, but not 4:29:01.
>
> I'm sorry, this belief that 4:30:59.999999 is closer to
> 4:30 than to 4:31,
I never said that.
> that's not right at all, not at all.
> If "exact" means +/- 2 sec, then 4:30:59 would qualify as
> "exactly 4:31", and 4:29:01 would qualify as "exactly 4:29".
flite_time does not want to talk about 4:31, but only 4:30, or 4:35, but
not in between.
> (IMHO, if by "exact" you mean "to the nearest minute",
> then it's more helpful to say "4:30", which helpfully
> hints that you are measuring to the nearest minute.)
flite_time wants to mean "exact to the nearest 5 minutes".
Samuel
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