On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 07:01:40PM -0400, Kenta Suzumoto wrote:
# Hi. Is there no built-in way of making sleep sleep in increments
# of minutes, hours, etc? The GNU sleep can be invoked like sleep
# 1h for an hour. The FreeBSD one's manpage leads me to believe we
# can only use seconds, which
On 29/05/2013 05:59, Michael Sierchio wrote:
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Joshua Isom jri...@gmail.com wrote:
You think it's trivial until you read this:
http://infiniteundo.com/post/**25326999628/falsehoods-**
On 05/29/13 05:59, Michael Sierchio wrote:
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Joshua Isom jri...@gmail.com wrote:
You think it's trivial until you read this:
http://infiniteundo.com/post/**25326999628/falsehoods-**
what is stopping from interpreting 1h in similar manner to 3600? i.e. from
now
No, this is user-friendly, and thus can't be done :)
But if think a second, sleep is used rarely by average users, mostly by
programmers and other scripts, and they should know better what they are
doing.
Seriously,
On 29 May 2013 07:13, Matthew Seaman matt...@freebsd.org wrote:
On 29/05/2013 05:59, Michael Sierchio wrote:
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Joshua Isom jri...@gmail.com wrote:
You think it's trivial until you read this:
http://infiniteundo.com/post/**25326999628/falsehoods-**
Seriously, that explanation about different hours is not enough to prevent
at least useful option.
like
sleep -f 1h
(-f means force convert, without it you can see good explanation why sleep
for 1 hour will be not sleep for 1 hour, and etc, and not get sleep at
all.).
Do one thing, and do
I'm just saying that there's pretty space for discussion.
If someone raised this now, why not discuss it now.
If you sleep one hour, do you sleep one hour from now or one hour from
the system clock which may change in the next hour? If it's the system
clock, you may sleep for ten minutes or ten
On May 29, 2013, at 7:58 AM, Jason Birch jbi...@jbirch.net wrote:
Seriously, that explanation about different hours is not enough to prevent
at least useful option.
like
sleep -f 1h
(-f means force convert, without it you can see good explanation why sleep
for 1 hour will be not sleep for 1
On Wed, 29 May 2013 12:04:47 +0100
Chris Rees wrote:
On 29 May 2013 07:13, Matthew Seaman matt...@freebsd.org wrote:
Right. The fact that on very rare occasions a minute may not have
60 seconds in it plus many other corner cases in calculating the
current wall-clock time is an amusing
On Wed, 29 May 2013 10:01:53 -0400
Paul Kraus wrote:
Agreed. When I first started dealing with Unix professionally (1995,
I started playing with Unix-like OSes almost 10 years earlier) I was
taught that each Unix command does one thing and does it well.
It would still just be doing one thing
I'm personally a fan of a forest-green bike shed myself...
It would still just be doing one thing - sleeping.
I agree. Perfect solution fallacy aside, a sleep option with basic time
increments would be useful for real-world purposes. I'm in favor of computing
it as a multiple of seconds as
On Tue, 28 May 2013 at 19:01 -, Kenta Suzumoto wrote:
Hi. Is there no built-in way of making sleep sleep in increments
of minutes, hours, etc? The GNU sleep can be invoked like sleep
1h for an hour. The FreeBSD one's manpage leads me to believe we
can only use seconds, which is kind of
On 5/28/2013 6:01 PM, Kenta Suzumoto wrote:
Hi. Is there no built-in way of making sleep sleep in increments
of minutes, hours, etc? The GNU sleep can be invoked like sleep
1h for an hour. The FreeBSD one's manpage leads me to believe we
can only use seconds, which is kind of annoying. Is there
You think it's trivial until you read this:
http://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time
If you sleep one hour, do you sleep one hour from now or one hour from
the system clock which may change in the next hour? If it's the system
clock, you may sleep
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Joshua Isom jri...@gmail.com wrote:
You think it's trivial until you read this:
http://infiniteundo.com/post/**25326999628/falsehoods-**
programmers-believe-about-timehttp://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time
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