From: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 06:20:34 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: HOWTO: update time specification
X-Git-Tag: fio-2.99~47
X-Git-Url: https://git.kernel.dk/?p=fio.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=008d0feb8eee7818ac29824dbb0c74b9da4ab7c7;hp=9207a0cbd8f46143e4d857ebecbd4e9174f0fa16

HOWTO: update time specification

Add that time may take a suffix for day and list all time suffixes in
the same format.

Signed-off-by: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>
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diff --git a/HOWTO b/HOWTO
index 33395f9c..efafc88f 100644
--- a/HOWTO
+++ b/HOWTO
@@ -470,10 +470,10 @@ Parameter types
     String. This is a sequence of alpha characters.
 
 **time**
-	Integer with possible time suffix. In seconds unless otherwise
-	specified, use e.g. 10m for 10 minutes. Accepts s/m/h for seconds, minutes,
-	and hours, and accepts 'ms' (or 'msec') for milliseconds, and 'us' (or
-	'usec') for microseconds.
+	Integer with possible time suffix.  Without a unit value is interpreted as
+	seconds unless otherwise specified.  Accepts a suffix of 'd' for days, 'h' for
+	hours, 'm' for minutes, 's' for seconds, 'ms' (or 'msec') for milliseconds and
+	'us' (or 'usec') for microseconds.  For example, use 10m for 10 minutes.
 
 .. _int: