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When the 'STARTED' field was added, the width was made
the same as the 'TIME+' field. Thus, a full time could
be shown (which then included hundredths of a second).

That kind of granularity is totally unnecessary. After
all, this column is potentially confusing enough since
it is so counterintuitive. So, this commit will reduce
the width of the field with some help from scale_tics.

Henceforth it will not include those ol' centiseconds.

[ along the way let's expand the man document with a ]
[ a remainder about content representation & scaling ]

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commit 7647e96b0a

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
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Jim Warner
2022-02-27 00:00:00 -06:00
committed by Craig Small
parent c89421e83a
commit a749414f16
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@@ -980,10 +980,15 @@ member of the session, called the session leader, which is usually the
login shell.
.TP 4
\fBSTARTED \*(Em Start Time \fR
\fBSTARTED \*(Em Start Time Interval\fR
The length of time since system boot when a process started.
Thus, the most recently started task will display the largest time interval.
The value will be expressed as 'MM:SS' (minutes:sceonds) until the
interval becomes too great to fit column width.
At that point it will be scaled to 'HH,MM' (hours,minutes) and possibly
beyond.
.TP 4
\fBSUID \*(Em Saved User Id \fR
The\fI saved\fR user ID.