better formatting

Signed-off-by: Jeff Carr <jcarr@wit.com>

human.go

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ package virtbuf
 // mostly just functions related to making STDOUT
 // more readable by us humans
 
-// also function shortcuts the do limited formatting (haha, who remembers COBOL?)
+// also function shortcuts the do fixed limited formatting (it's like COBOL)
 // so reporting tables of the status of what droplets and hypervisors
 // are in text columns and rows that can be easily read in a terminal
 
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 	"time"
 
+	"google.golang.org/protobuf/types/known/timestamppb"
+
 	"go.wit.com/log"
 )
 
@@ -146,34 +148,26 @@ func (d *Droplet) SprintDumpHeader() string {
 		macs = append(macs, n.Mac)
 	}
 
-	// this line in golang could replace 80 lines of COBOL
 	header := fmt.Sprintf("%-4.4s%20s %-8s", d.Current.State, strings.Join(macs, " "), d.Current.Hypervisor)
 
 	if d.Current == nil {
-		d.Current = new(Current)
+		return header
 	}
 
+	if d.Current.OnSince == nil {
+		d.Current.OnSince = timestamppb.New(time.Now())
+	}
+
+	t := time.Since(d.Current.OnSince.AsTime()) // time since 'ON'
+	dur := FormatDuration(t)
+
 	switch d.Current.State {
 	case DropletState_ON:
-		var dur string
-		if d.Current.OnSince != nil {
-			dur = ""
-		} else {
-			t := time.Since(d.Current.OnSince.AsTime()) // time since 'ON'
-			dur = FormatDuration(t)
-		}
 		header += fmt.Sprintf(" (on :%3s)", dur)
 	case DropletState_OFF:
-		var dur string
-		if d.Current.OffSince != nil {
-			dur = ""
-		} else {
-			t := time.Since(d.Current.OffSince.AsTime()) // time since 'OFF'
-			dur = FormatDuration(t)
-		}
 		header += fmt.Sprintf(" (off:%3s)", dur)
 	default:
-		header += fmt.Sprintf(" (?? :%3s)", "")
+		header += fmt.Sprintf(" (?? :%3s)", dur)
 	}
 	return header
 }