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Bug#416963: marked as done (should use "min" rather than "m" for referring to minutes)

Your message dated Tue, 11 Aug 2015 20:26:05 +0200
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and subject line Re: should use "min" rather than "m" for referring to minutes
has caused the Debian Bug report #416963,
regarding should use "min" rather than "m" for referring to minutes
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Package: apt
Version: 0.6.46.4-0.1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch

Please, could you use "min" rather than "m" for referring to minutes?  "m" is
the SI unit for meter.  While there's no SI unit for minutes, the CIPM
(Comité International des Poids et Mesures) standards recommend that
"min" is used:

  http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/outside.html

Patch attached.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-amd64
Locale: LANG=ca_AD.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ca_AD.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  debian-archive-keyring      2007.02.19   GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii  libc6                       2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                     1:4.1.1-21   GCC support library
ii  libstdc++6                  4.1.1-21     The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

apt recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

--- apt-pkg/contrib/strutl.cc~	2006-12-04 15:37:35.000000000 +0100
+++ apt-pkg/contrib/strutl.cc	2007-03-31 20:48:24.000000000 +0200
@@ -291,19 +291,19 @@
    {
       if (Sec > 60*60*24)
       {
-	 sprintf(S,"%lid %lih%lim%lis",Sec/60/60/24,(Sec/60/60) % 24,(Sec/60) % 60,Sec % 60);
+	 sprintf(S,"%lid %lih%limin%lis",Sec/60/60/24,(Sec/60/60) % 24,(Sec/60) % 60,Sec % 60);
 	 break;
       }
       
       if (Sec > 60*60)
       {
-	 sprintf(S,"%lih%lim%lis",Sec/60/60,(Sec/60) % 60,Sec % 60);
+	 sprintf(S,"%lih%limin%lis",Sec/60/60,(Sec/60) % 60,Sec % 60);
 	 break;
       }
       
       if (Sec > 60)
       {
-	 sprintf(S,"%lim%lis",Sec/60,Sec % 60);
+	 sprintf(S,"%limin%lis",Sec/60,Sec % 60);
 	 break;
       }

--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message --- 
Control: tags -1 + wontfix

Hi,

On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 08:51:19PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> Please, could you use "min" rather than "m" for referring to minutes?  "m" is
> the SI unit for meter.  While there's no SI unit for minutes, the CIPM
> (Comité International des Poids et Mesures) standards recommend that
> "min" is used:

While you are right, I don't see much point in it and others seem to
agree as this wasn't commited or even commented on in 8 years.

This is mainly used in the places where every character counts (like the
one line progress report at the bottom of 'apt-get update'), so
"wasting" too additional character for something which should be pretty
obvious from the context ("5m 32s" probably doesn't mean "5 meters and
32 seconds" nor "5 months and 32 seconds") feels wrong.

So, closing this bug as wontfix.


Best regards

David Kalnischkies

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