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> `31 Oct 2022, 5:34 pm IST`. Not inhuman enough. 12-hour time format is way too human, only used in spoken colloquial language outside the US. Ideally it should be 2022-10-31T12:34Z.
Haha, fair enough. I wanted to add a choice of formats, and this gives me ideas. Thanks!
How did this "days ago" date trend ever get started? It's absolutely horrible. Another trend I've seen is to spell out the full name of the month but then leave out the year. Gee, thanks for making me hover over every single date just to see what it actually is.
I like to make it show the time stamp on hover / tap.
How did this "days ago" date trend ever get started? It's absolutely horrible. Another trend I've seen is to spell out the full name of the month but then leave out the year. Gee, thanks for making me hover over every single date just to see what it actually is.
It’s what most people want and what people have to keep calculating when you give them time stamps. If you are in a decision making position you’d want to do the same research to see what your users want. I like to make it show the time stamp on hover / tap.
This is exactly what GitHub does (on hover). I'm not sure how they calculate what format to show it in on hover. For me, it's a good balance of getting a feel for the time at a glance while allowing you to see actual time on hover when you need it.
How did this "days ago" date trend ever get started? It's absolutely horrible. Another trend I've seen is to spell out the full name of the month but then leave out the year. Gee, thanks for making me hover over every single date just to see what it actually is.
> `31 Oct 2022, 5:34 pm IST`. Not inhuman enough. 12-hour time format is way too human, only used in spoken colloquial language outside the US. Ideally it should be 2022-10-31T12:34Z.
Haha, fair enough. I wanted to add a choice of formats, and this gives me ideas. Thanks!
How did this "days ago" date trend ever get started? It's absolutely horrible. Another trend I've seen is to spell out the full name of the month but then leave out the year. Gee, thanks for making me hover over every single date just to see what it actually is.
If it doesn't explicitly mention the year, it's the current one. I think it's pretty great and reduces mental burden.
How did this "days ago" date trend ever get started? It's absolutely horrible. Another trend I've seen is to spell out the full name of the month but then leave out the year. Gee, thanks for making me hover over every single date just to see what it actually is.
It’s what most people want and what people have to keep calculating when you give them time stamps. If you are in a decision making position you’d want to do the same research to see what your users want. I like to make it show the time stamp on hover / tap.
However, for the population of GitHub users, I am certain a significantly higher percentage desire precise timestamps. Maybe even in ISO 8601 / IETF RFC 3339.
Are you claiming that even among GitHub users the percentage desiring "days ago" is overwhelming? Based on what data?
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Haha, fair enough. I wanted to add a choice of formats, and this gives me ideas. Thanks!
Relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/1179/
Living in the EU I still use the US locale for apps and libs to work the default way, except on Windows (where this has always been easy) I have always been manually tweaking it to use the metric system and the ISO date and time format. The only annoyance in this case is printing apps defaulting to Letter rather than A4 paper, using national locales causes much more annoyances.
How did this "days ago" date trend ever get started? It's absolutely horrible. Another trend I've seen is to spell out the full name of the month but then leave out the year. Gee, thanks for making me hover over every single date just to see what it actually is.
How did this "days ago" date trend ever get started? It's absolutely horrible. Another trend I've seen is to spell out the full name of the month but then leave out the year. Gee, thanks for making me hover over every single date just to see what it actually is.