PLEASE change the relative dates to actual dates in timestamps in thread views!
I know I've been on about this for months, but apparently I need to ask again here so that it can get tracked. And possibly ignored again. We shall see.
Please, please, PLEASE either give us a configurable option to change the display of dates on Connect, OR just go ahead and change the display of all dates displayed on Connect from the relative "6 weeks 7 hours ago" stuff someone must have been very proud of coding to the plain old "May 29, 2009 06:44" timestamp that people can understand in real life without having to try to do some math in their head.
(I'm hopeful this might also solve the problem of people tacking replies onto threads from 2008 without noticing that the timestamp is something like "1 year 36 weeks" which just doesn't seem to register with a lot of folks.)
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Totally agree here!!!!
Totally agree here!!!!
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Me too.
Me too.
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As long as ...
... it's not hardcoded to EST or something - or I will get confused! :D
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hours and minuts are fine
Hours and minutes are fine till that day.. but what confuses me is 1 year 37 weeks and all that..
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"Last comment: 11 weeks 3 days ago"
(sigh)
It's been (to put it in Connect's terminology) 13 weeks 5 days since this idea was proposed. What is the timeframe for ideas to get examined? Should I have gone lobbying for more votes? Would bumping this thread get me more votes? Is it too late to bring back the STN? Let's find out.
Agree CRZ, I hope this will get changed soon.
I don't want to do math.
Thanks, Karthikeyan Sundaram.
We hear you on this. I've
We hear you on this. I've got it on our list, but our list is very long at the moment. It sounds like the right way to do this is to display relative dates for posts that have happened recently, then use absolute dates after that?
Sounds good
Peter,
I'd say to use the "x hours ago" for anything up to 24 hours, and regular date/time for anything more than 1 day old. Of course this would also require a per-user timezone configuration and time format selection in the User configuration.
Thanks,
Kyle
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Nice idea
Nice idea
Just noticed...
...that the initial post (at least on this Idea) lists the actual date (July 10, 2009) that this was posted, but the updates show the relative date...
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@.peter, Any update on this?
@.peter,
Any update on this? I know a lot of Connectors are annoyed with the "12 weeks 2 days ago" bit.
Thanks,
Kyle
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