Hi,
Using the latest beta I have this bug in Log tab:
The black clock is a RM skin giving local time
I think that it is in a different time zone, not mine (GMT+2 normally, +3 summer time). I also think I have this problem since a few beta's ago, a.k.a it didn't started with the latest.
Does anyone else have it?
It is currently April 28th, 2024, 9:04 am
[BUG] Time Zone in "About" Log
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Re: [BUG] Time Zone in "About" Log
I assume you're talking about the Time column in the about dialog. That is actually the amount of time since Rainmeter was started.
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Re: [BUG] Time Zone in "About" Log
I had the biggest coincidence happening to me before I post this screenshot. The time said 23:40, and then I restarted Rainmeter (due to irrelevant reasons), and I took the shot. It looked as the day changed (from 23:00 to 00:00).
Ok then, thank you, and sorry for my dumbness. It would be nice if we could have the actual time of the notification there, so that we can know when something happened.
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Re: [BUG] Time Zone in "About" Log
We were just talking about that, but feel that for debugging purposes, it is a better approach to have the "elapsed time" as it is, since that can support a level of detail down to the millisecond, which any variant of "clock time" won't.KreAch3R wrote:
I had the biggest coincidence happening to me before I post this screenshot. The time said 23:40, and then I restarted Rainmeter (due to irrelevant reasons), and I took the shot. It looked as the day changed (from 23:00 to 00:00).
Ok then, thank you, and sorry for my dumbness. It would be nice if we could have the actual time of the notification there, so that we can know when something happened.
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Re: [BUG] Time Zone in "About" Log
Just saw your answer.jsmorley wrote:
We were just talking about that, but feel that for debugging purposes, it is a better approach to have the "elapsed time" as it is, since that can support a level of detail down to the millisecond, which any variant of "clock time" won't.
If the "clock time" variant restricts the detail level to seconds only, then yeah, I agree with that approach. knowing the exact sequence of the errors helps greatly when programming.
What I had in mind when proposing the "clock", is that many times I open up my log for irrelevant reasons to see that I have some minor errors (not conflicting with the use of the skin; sometimes it is connection failure, while others a hiccup in a .lua script) and I don't really know when they happen. That fact hinders my attempts to understand why the error occured.
Since we are talking about the log, is it possible (and/or included in future plans) to find a way to display the log using a skin? Could we have Rainmeter parse the log in "internal measures", and we would just display them as we like?
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Re: [BUG] Time Zone in "About" Log
Sounds interesting. Maybe a new measure type (Measure=Log).KreAch3R wrote:Since we are talking about the log, is it possible (and/or included in future plans) to find a way to display the log using a skin? Could we have Rainmeter parse the log in "internal measures", and we would just display them as we like?
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Re: [BUG] Time Zone in "About" Log
We can get the "clock time" down to milliseconds as well. "Elapsed time" is useful in some cases for benchmarking things, but I agree with KreAch3R that "clock time" is more intuitive for others.jsmorley wrote:We were just talking about that, but feel that for debugging purposes, it is a better approach to have the "elapsed time" as it is, since that can support a level of detail down to the millisecond, which any variant of "clock time" won't.
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Re: [BUG] Time Zone in "About" Log
I'm perfectly ok with it either way as long as we can get it as the level of milliseconds.poiru wrote: We can get the "clock time" down to milliseconds as well. "Elapsed time" is useful in some cases for benchmarking things, but I agree with KreAch3R that "clock time" is more intuitive for others.
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Re: [BUG] Time Zone in "About" Log
I would prefer a checkbox if possible: "Display Computer Time"
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Re: [BUG] Time Zone in "About" Log
I'm glad that you liked the idea. Smurfier's suggestion is the least invasive for the end-user, so it's the safer option. I'm looking forward to the implementation, if the Rainmeter team decides so.
How about this? I agree with you, AlC, a new Measure is in the right direction. Thanks for suggesting Sepia, works like a charm! Other than that, the idea of the built-in feature is always appealing, so that we don't have to take the long route (creating a plain file and then parsing it).AlC wrote: Sounds interesting. Maybe a new measure type (Measure=Log).
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