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From:
Renaud Allard <renaud@allard.it>
Subject:
Re: ifconfig wg: "humanify" last handshake
To:
tech@openbsd.org
Date:
Thu, 7 Aug 2025 14:56:13 +0200

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On 8/7/25 10:38 AM, Omar Polo wrote:
> Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org> wrote:
>> On 2025/08/06 16:34, Omar Polo wrote:
>>> +	else if (delta > 60 * 60 * 2)
>>> +		r = snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%lld hours ago",
>>> +		    delta / (60 * 60));
>>> +	else if (delta > 60 * 2)
>>> +		r = snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%lld minutes ago",
>>> +		    delta / 60);
>>
>> "3 minutes ago" loses a lot of information compared to (180..239) seconds.
> 
> mmhh, yeah, you're right.  Honestly I don't look often at the last
> handshake, usually just when something is not working, like the other
> day, i care to look.
> 
> i also understand theo's point.
> 
> i'll continue runinng python to do the math to understand how much time
> passed :-)
> 

That's just an idea, but what about adding a "-h" flag like in df(1)?