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Bug in IE
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12/09/2002 10:35:50
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
 
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Windows
Category:
Computing in general
Title:
Bug in IE
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00699765
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00699765
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I wonder whether anyone else notice this interesting - and harmless - bug in IE.

When downloading a file, IE tries to estimate the time left. The people who designed this time estimate were apparently bent on displaying 3 significant digits, so the time left can display, e.g., as follows:
2 h  11 m
2 h  10 m
2 h   9 m  50 s
2 h   9 m  40 s
...
1 h  59 m
1 h  58 m
...
Note that in this example, when the minutes have one digit, the seconds appear, otherwise not! The zero in 2:09 should simply be considered as a "significant digit" (whether it is displayed or not), but it isn't.

Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
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