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I had to make a decision. If curl estimates time left to transfer a file is 4398046511103 seconds. How do we display that in - 7 bytes?

I decided that if the time exceeds 99,999 years we show it as ">99999y" even though a 63bit epoch *can* hold up to 292 billion years.

7 bytes because I need the entire curl progress meter to fit within 79 bytes.

What's a better thing to do on a Saturday? 馃榿

github.com/curl/curl/pull/20173

Each time field is now 7 characters wide, so that the total width never exceeds 79 columns so that it works correctly also in Windows terminals. The title lines are adjusted accordingly. This is ac...

progress: narrower time display, multiple fixes by bagder 路 Pull Request #20173 路 curl/curl

Each time field is now 7 characters wide, so that the total width never exceeds 79 columns so that it works correctly also in Windows terminals. The title lines are adjusted accordingly. This is ac...

github.com 路 GitHub

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