You're absolutely right.  
I don't know C++ very well, but I was able to make an amateur patch that does this.

If anyone wants the patch, here it is (it converts time left to HH:MM on the display): http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=Df2ttb9e

On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Kok, Auke-jan H <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com> wrote:


On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 5:58 PM, corrupt <corrupt@gmail.com> wrote:
I just upgraded to Powertop 2.0 and I'm frankly I'm disappointed with the new interface.

It shows how many minutes there is left on my battery (267 minutes), which is kind of odd that it's not in HH:MM format like the previous versions.

Any way to change this?
 
You could write a patch that divides the amount of minutes by 60, and changes the display!

Cheers,

Auke