[Swift-user] coaster maxtime

Mihael Hategan hategan at mcs.anl.gov
Mon Aug 23 15:01:56 CDT 2010


On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 13:49 -0600, Michael Wilde wrote:
> I agree. How about for backwards compatibility, accept an entry without ":"s as seconds. That seems a reasonable convention for all time fields:
> hh:mm:ss or nnnn seconds.

Except that for walltimes in general that would mean minutes. Which is
exactly the cause for some funny troubles. Justin an I stared at
(maxtime="3600" walltime="3600" ) for quite a while before figuring out
that one was minutes and the other seconds.

Mihael




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