[Nut-upsdev] zero-prepended values - why oh why?

[Niklas Edmundsson]

Can somebody please explain why values are 0-prepended in almost every 
driver? Since it's done almost everywhere I suspect it's due to some 
old policy.

In theory this might have been a good idea given the assumption that 
applications are forced to parse the values before presenting them. 
However, since this isn't done even within NUT I don't see any real 
reason for doing this.

Essentially, 0-prepended values:
* Normally means that they are octal, but they aren't in our case.
* Produces ugly cluttered output when displayed without processing (as
   done but upsc/upsstats etc).
* Does not facilitate parsing in any way (it might have if the values
   were octal, but they aren't).

I'd really like to remove all 0-prepending of values because of these 
reasons. The way to go for this would probably be to agree on some 
kind of "best practices" and document it in new-names.txt and then 
people can change their drivers in their own pace when they get nagged 
by users that their UPS shows ugly 0-prepended stuff in upsstats et 
al. ;)

/Nikke
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