Time estimates in days+hours+minutes are overly precise
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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update-manager (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Michael Vogt |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: update-manager
Ubuntu 7.04
A few minutes ago, the "Distribution Upgrade" window told me there were "About 2 days 1 hours 15 minutes remaining". Now, it tells me there are "About 1 days 10 hours 17 minutes reminaing".
This bug is not about the plurals (bug 87914), it is about the precision. Realistically, if there's more than a day remaining, Update Manager can't accurately estimate the number of minutes in addition to the number of hours. And even if it could, it wouldn't be very interesting.
So if there is more than a day remaining, the estimate should be to the nearest hour, not the nearest minute. (Arguably, the same is true even if the estimate is less than a day - "About 9 hours" has a higher signal-to-noise ratio than "About 8 hours 51 minutes" does. Perhaps minutes start becoming relevant once the estimate is less than about 2 hours.)
Changed in update-manager: | |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
Changed in update-manager: | |
assignee: | nobody → jibel |
I agree that this needs to be fixed. I'm just not sure if we should do it for gutsy and break the translation of this message.