How do I view shutter speed as fraction instead of decimal?

Sometimes the shutter speed appears as a fraction, other times as a decimal. Is there a way to make it always appear as a fraction?

tidysteve wrote:
it is only on images (for me) of .3s, .4s, 5s and .6s ... the first and last ones are not a very "attractive" fraction (3/10s - 1/3.33333333333 and so on - or 6/10 - 1/1.6666666666667) ... second would better (1/2.5s) ... but i really can't understand the 1/2s not showing as fraction ...
Looking again I've just seen this and also 1.6s.
Out of interest I fired up 1.5.6 and an 1.5 Library and decimals were visible for half a second or slower - so 1.5.6 shows 1/3 instead of 0.33333...
tidysteve wrote:
it just might be how the camera records the info ... shrug
ALL cameras, as far as I know, store the shutter speed in decimal form - computers don't generally like fractions.

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