Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 4 Feb 2001 15:42:26 +0000 (GMT) | From | James Sutherland <> | Subject | Re: Better battery info/status files |
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On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Ben Ford wrote:
> David Woodhouse wrote: > > > On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, James Sutherland wrote: > > > > > For the end-user, the ability to see readings in other units would be > > > useful - how many people on this list work in litres/metres/kilometres, > > > and how many in gallons/feet/miles? Probably enough in both groups that > > > neither could count as universal... > > > > Yeah. We can have this as part of the locale settings, changable by > > echoing the desired locale string to /proc/sys/kernel/lc_all. > > > > - > > Just an idea, . . but isn't this something better done in userland? > > (ben@Deacon)-(06:49am Sun Feb 4)-(ben) > $ date +%s > 981298161 > (ben@Deacon)-(06:49am Sun Feb 4)-(ben) > $ date +%c > Sun Feb 4 06:49:24 2001
That's what I'd do, anyway - /dev/pieceofstring would return the length of said piece of string in some units, explicityly stated. (e.g. "5m" or "15ft").
"uname -s" ("how long's a piece of string on this system") would then convert the length into feet, metres or fathoms, depending on what the user prefers.
James.
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