* Tom Lane (t...@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentr...@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > On 7/13/16 2:06 PM, Corey Huinker wrote:
> >> Time: 3601083.544 ms (1h 0m 1.084s)
> 
> > That works for me, except that the abbreviation for minute is "min".
> 
> Meh ... if we're using one-letter abbreviations for hour and second,
> using three letters for minute seems just arbitrarily inconsistent.
> There is zero possibility that anyone would misunderstand what unit
> the "m" stands for.  See also the typical output of time(1):
> 
> $ time sleep 1
> 
> real    0m1.002s
> user    0m0.001s
> sys     0m0.002s
> 
> (Well, I guess that's bash's builtin rather than /usr/bin/time,
> but the point stands: "m" is widely accepted in this context.)

Agreed.

Thanks!

Stephen

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