Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 15:52:36 10/14/97
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On October 14, 1997 at 13:08:16, Chris Whittington wrote: >You don't need to. You can just enter 40 moves in 55 or whatever ... > >Perfectly sensible plot. This is exactly what I do. But I get the idea that if I do this, someone is going to bark at me because my program says it has 55 minutes left, rather than 60 minutes, and force me to change it to 60 minutes. Maybe I can argue that since I only gave it 55 minutes, that a displayed time of 55 minutes indicates zero minutes elapsed, which is accurate. Of course, when it is move 40, perhaps 57 minutes will have elapsed, and since I started with 55, maybe I should have to change the time to -2 minutes. See why this is a problem? And then there is the requirement, apparently, that I must display my clock, which updates the screen every second. Maybe this seems like nothing, but I have never done any tests to see how efficent that screen update is, perhaps it is awful. I shouldn't *have* to research this now, my flight is in like ten days, and this rule isn't even finalized, perhaps it will change more. bruce
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