no support for hours:minutes calculations

[mlg7]

Binary package hint: gcalctool

The calculator supports hex, decimal, octal and binary, but does not support the mixed 60:60 base calculation.
When I want to calculate a sum of, say, 9:30+7:45, I get a "Malformed expression" notification,
whereas I want to get 17:15.

Please, note that in time calculations, the following formats may be used:
unlimited:60 for hours:minutes
unlimited:60:60 for hours:minutes:seconds
unlimited:60:60.100 for hours:minutes:seconds.hundreds
unlimited:60:60.1000 for hours:minutes:seconds.milliseconds
unlimited_24:60 for days_hours:minutes
unlimited_24:60:60 for days_hours:minutes:seconds
unlimited_24:60:60.100 for days_hours:minutes:seconds.hundreds
unlimited_24:60:60.1000 for days_hours:minutes:seconds.milliseconds

And, finally, sometimes we want to convert days_hours:minutes to, say, seconds...

PS (Old joke)
how much is 50+50?
a) 100
b) A0
c) 1:40

PS and the way we count time is a _very_ old joke... But everyone is locked in.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: gcalctool 5.32.0-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-25.44-generic 2.6.35.10
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-25-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Feb 18 11:40:29 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gcalctool

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has already been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=600063.

[David Tombs (dgtombs)]

Status triaged because it's an upstream bug.