[rrd-developers] RRDtool: more flexible parameters to "SHIFT"

[Tobias Oetiker]

Today Stian Øvrevåge wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Would it be possible to take the same parameter formats to shift as to all
> other fields? It seems a bit redundant for me to make my own functions to
> convert from 1w, 5d etc to seconds just to get the SHIFT right :-)

the problem with 'the other format' is that the implementation of
that parser is so horrible that I try to avoid it wherever possible
... the first order of business would be a complete and clean
rewrite of the at-parser ... then we would be in business ...

care to take a stab ?

cheers
tobi

>
> Cheers
> Stian Øvrevåge
>

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