[Bug 10847] New: inconsistent units should be unified and follow SI/IEC standard

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https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10847

           Summary: inconsistent units should be unified and follow SI/IEC
                    standard
           Product: rsync
           Version: 3.1.1
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: trivial
          Priority: P5
         Component: core
        AssignedTo: wayned at samba.org
        ReportedBy: news at jonasstein.de
         QAContact: rsync-qa at samba.org


rsync prints units not conistent. As shown in a typical output like in
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10580



I suggest 

* to follow SI prefix standard [1] and add a single space between the value and
the unit: 

3.13G -> 3.13 GB



* to note all units in a unique way:
now it is "K bytes/sec" and "kB/s" 


* to chose between binary IEC [2] units and SI units (perhaps ask the user for
an option? --iec --si) and wite a short note in the man page like 1 kB = 1000
Byte
or 1 KiB = 1024 B.


* to note "seconds" with the SI symbol "s" [3]



[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix
[2] http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
[3] http://www.bipm.org/en/measurement-units/

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