It's obviously 30 minutes.
Standard time notation is H:M:S
so 5:15 is five hours and 15 minutes (if that is the context of the narrative) or its 5 minutes and 15 second (if that is the context of the narrative)
Same with 2651:30 --- since we know the context of the narrative is hours (as shown in my response in a post preceding NaughtyRoad's post - and it would be ridiculous to assume it's minutes because that is only 44 hours), we know that it is 2651 hours and 30 minutes.
Yes, two thousand, six hundred and fifty one hours and thirty minutes spent on chapter 8 for developing, writing, coding, designing, rendering, editing, revising, compiling, etc.
That's in under 13 months (chapter 8 work started 11 Oct 2023). That's on top of his work that pays the bills and spending time with family.
First off, I'll just admit I can be contextually dim on occasion. But if you're going to use the H:M:S format, use the whole thing for clarity. So, 2651:30:00. Much harder to misinterpret that (though depending on how little sleep, or how much -OH in the bloodstream, could still be accomplished). Or just round up or down and state hours worked on this chapter, why specify 30 minutes when you're talking about thousand of hours, and if you want to include that, 2651.5 hours is right there? There's a lot of options and assumptions that
could be made. I was asking for more info, which is usually the best thing to do if one is feeling unclear.
The important take away is clear, dev has put a lot of time into this chapter, and I'm here in this thread because their work has already impressed me deeply. Honestly, if they have another job, they may want to scale back on something, because that's too many hours a week to work, imo.
But anyways, congrats to the dev on all the work they've done, I wait in antici...........
...pation, and will happily wait for when they think it is ready to share. Obviously.