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MARViN2003
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 Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 5:46 pm Post subject: Incorrect time remaining format |
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Is it just me or do other people find the way the remaining journey time is displayed really annoying.
1.35hrs should be displayed as 1h 35m
1.15min should be displayed as 1m 15s |
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Matt865
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| Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 6:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Yes, I do find it a little annoying. 1.35hrs is 1h 21m. Still, proper time formatting isn't the top of my list of things for TT to fix. |
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Andy_P
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| Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 7:56 pm Post subject: |
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| I don't get that.. My display (on a 940)shows "1:35 hrs" with a colon not a full stop, which I'm happy with as a format. It's the same as the clock display and it's also the same on the route summary screen. |
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GerryC
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| Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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Hands up Cisco engineers.  
The numbers are correct (not like some decimal hour systems I've used) and are what would be expected by the majority of users.
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Pocketgps
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| Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 8:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Andy_P wrote: | | I don't get that.. My display (on a 940)shows "1:35 hrs" with a colon not a full stop, which I'm happy with as a format. It's the same as the clock display and it's also the same on the route summary screen. |
Over 10 mins its displays ok.
But under you get this:
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Andy_P
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| Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 8:58 pm Post subject: |
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So it does....
So it's a colon between hours and minutes, and a full stop between minutes and seconds? |
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Pocketgps
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| Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 9:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Andy_P wrote: | So it does....
So it's a colon between hours and minutes, and a full stop between minutes and seconds? |
It's a TomTom thing you know  |
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MrT
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| Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 9:53 am Post subject: |
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I must send my units back for a refund.
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Andy_P
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M8TJT
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| Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 12:36 pm Post subject: |
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I think the difference between 1:30 (mins) and 1.3 mins is about 18 seconds. Are we talking an ESTIMATE of the time remaining, or are we looking to arrive to the nearest milisecond 
Having said that. I prefer 1:30 to indicate 1 min 30 secs. I'm not too good with fractions of a min  |
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Pocketgps
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| Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 3:41 pm Post subject: |
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| M8TJT wrote: | I think the difference between 1:30 (mins) and 1.3 mins is about 18 seconds. Are we talking an ESTIMATE of the time remaining, or are we looking to arrive to the nearest milisecond
Having said that. I prefer 1:30 to indicate 1 min 30 secs. I'm not too good with fractions of a min |
I presume the TT software engineer went to lunch at that time and forgot to finish the code  |
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JockTamsonsBairn
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| Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 5:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Pocketgps wrote: | | I presume the TT software engineer went to lunch at that time and forgot to finish the code |
If the programmers are Dutch, is there any possibility that the "." replaces the ":" when representing times, in the same way as the "." replaces the "," as the thousand separator, and has been hard coded?
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Anita
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| Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 6:14 pm Post subject: |
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| M8TJT wrote: | | I think the difference between 1:30 (mins) and 1.3 mins is about 18 seconds. |
Sorry to be pedantic, but I think you'll find that 1.3 minutes is 1 minute and 18 seconds, so the difference between 1:30 mins and 1.3 mins is 12 seconds. 
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M8TJT
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| Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 7:12 pm Post subject: |
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That's what I made it first time but somehow screwed it up. Shows how unimportant it is. Am I bovverd. Does my face look Bovverd  |
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Anita
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| Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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| M8TJT wrote: | | Shows how unimportant it is. |
I know it's unimportant, but I freely admit that I'm a pedant! 
| Quote: | | Am I bovverd. Does my face look Bovverd |
No, it doesn't, and I wouldn't expect it to!
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