[ On Thursday, August 23, 2001 at 22:07:09 (+0930), Brett Lymn wrote: ]
> Subject: time stamps on dump time to complete estimates?
>
> (dammit!!).  To this end, I modified dump so that it prints a time
> stamp for each completion estimate.  I included the seconds in the
> timestamp but they look to be unnecessary.  The time printed is the
> time of the time stamp, another option would be to print the time of
> completion, something along the lines of:
> 
>   DUMP: 3.07% done, finished in 2:37 (22:18)
> 
> Where the numbers in brackets are the estimated finishing time.  I am
> not fussed either way, printing the time of the estimate or the
> estimated end time - either would be handy to have.... thoughts?

Yes please!  ;-)

I prefer the estimated finishing time (with the duration as shown
above) rather than the time of the ETA calculation -- it's simpler and
more obvious....

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