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Should period be in minutes or seconds?

Open crccheck opened this issue 10 years ago • 2 comments

It's supposed to be seconds, but since they're limited to being multiples of 60, I figure minutes is human friendlier. But juggling two separate systems of numbers is annoying.

crccheck avatar Oct 14 '14 05:10 crccheck

If, like me, you are planning to use leadbutt to integrate it with your collectd scripts, it becomes a bit of annoyance to have to convert in between minutes and seconds. Since aws-cli and other utilities use seconds as unit (regardless of the limitation of multiples of 60) I believe it would be nicer to express it in seconds.

An alternative would be to allow for units in the parameter (such as -p 60s)

kali-hernandez avatar Oct 08 '15 14:10 kali-hernandez

:+1: If there's a human friendly format, it should be REALLY human friendly and have units.

crccheck avatar Oct 09 '15 03:10 crccheck