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Re: [PATCH] sleep: support subtraction of sleep amounts


From: Bob Proulx
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sleep: support subtraction of sleep amounts
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 15:02:46 -0600
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12)

Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Is this useful enough that newer scripts are incompat
> with older systems without this functionality?
> I'm 50:50 TBH

I know that Jim already opened the door by saying he would accept the
feature if it were written.  For my part I see this as creeping
featurism and would vote against it.  With the "camel in the tent"
parable in mind I expect sleep to inevitably include full human date
parsing routines at some point.  If it will accept "1d -5s" then why
not "all night" or "until the next blue moon"?

Bob



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