From: Øyvind A. Holm <sunny@sunbase.org>
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 06:28:47 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] date.c: print "1 second ago", not "1 seconds ago"
Message-ID: <i2jc4c738cd1004202328hb58859f8ze9eb1858f5493c66@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4BCE977D.9040700@viscovery.net>

On 21 April 2010 08:13, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> wrote:
> Am 4/21/2010 7:31, schrieb Øyvind A. Holm:
>> When using --date=relative, print "1 second ago" instead of "1 seconds
>> ago".
>
> Why do you care only about about "1 seconds", but not "1 minutes", "1
> hours", etc? I mean, "1 seconds ago" is the most unlikely case of them all
> that will happen in practice...

It will never show "1 minute", "1 hour", etc. Only

  - "89 minutes" → "2 hours"
  - "35 hours" → "2 days"
  - "13 days" → "2 weeks"

and so on. Seconds is the only thing left to fix.

Cheers,
Øyvind A. Holm
(sunny256)