Time format

[roweryan]

Could the time format for ETC/ETA be changed to make it look more like a time?

The output looks like:

[ 1099] dd /dev/sde 5.7% (26.7 GiB / 465.8 GiB) 13.9 MiB/s eta 8:59:59

which makes me wonder if the ETC is really a countdown for the amount of time remaining.

Could it be in a standard time format instead

[Xfennec]

Any suggestion for the format, then?

[roweryan]

You could cheat and show both :) Zero pad to match iso8601 and show time remaining?

eta 08:59:59 (6h35m)

Show AM/PM? (eugh!)

eta 8:59:59 AM

[Xfennec]

Mmm now I see the issue: progress currently only shows the remaining time, it's not the the "datetime" of completion (that's why the value tends to lowers with time, if you look carefully).
I changed eta to remaining to avoid such confusions.

[roweryan]

Thanks. Don't forget the man page!

[Xfennec]

Right! Thanks.