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I think the sweet spot should be showing the actual date/time if > 24 hours. For rest, you could do "6 hours ago" or "15 mins ago". Then show a tooltip on the "

I think the sweet spot should be showing the actual date/time if > 24 hours. For rest, you could do "6 hours ago" or "15 mins ago". Then show a tooltip on the "6 hours ago" to show actual date/timestamp. THis is a better user experience in my opinion.

mvdtnz 3y ago
Why? How is "6 minutes ago" more useful than "9:27am today" or "2023-06-26 09:23"? For one thing it becomes out of date and inaccurate within 1 minute of the page loading. Do I have to memorise the loading time of each of my tabs so I know how to put timestamps into context?
- jcul 3y ago
  It can be useful when frequently working across many timezones, working on remote systems etc. While I generally prefer absolute timestamps, sometimes "1 hour ago" or lets meet in "30 mins" is easier and skips the mental gymnastics of coverting timezones.
- masukomi 3y ago
  9:27 assumes i a) have any clue what time it is now b) assumes that an arbitrary time designation is more important to me than the relative distance. When talking about stuff today, as a general statement "a" is almost always false for me and "b" is false nearly 100% of the time. I don't care that it was at 9:27am I care how long ago it was. "Was this the thing i just attempted or the prior attempt?" "did this happen before or after that conversation we had like 20 minutes ago?" "a" means i have to do an additional lookup. It doesn't matter that it's easy, it's an additional lookup. "b" means that i also have to do math, and i have a really really hard time with mental math (dyscalculia is a real thing). and, as others have pointed out. Time zones suck. I'm constantly coming up against UIs that refuse to tell me the time in my time zone when i need it, or in "their" time zone when I need it. "is that actually their 9:27 am, and thus my 2:27pm or is it _my_ 9:27am?" is the type of question I'm constantly asking. And then it's followed by "oh but [person x] is in a time zone one hour off so really that would be ...8:27 or 1:27?"
djur 3y ago
I generally find the difference between "1 week ago", "1 month ago", and "1 year ago" (and "10 years ago", for that matter) way more useful than "3 hours ago" versus "5 hours ago". I'd rather see precise times for the current day than precise dates for the past.

mvdtnz 3y ago

Why? How is "6 minutes ago" more useful than "9:27am today" or "2023-06-26 09:23"? For one thing it becomes out of date and inaccurate within 1 minute of the page loading. Do I have to memorise the loading time of each of my tabs so I know how to put timestamps into context?

jcul 3y ago
It can be useful when frequently working across many timezones, working on remote systems etc. While I generally prefer absolute timestamps, sometimes "1 hour ago" or lets meet in "30 mins" is easier and skips the mental gymnastics of coverting timezones.
masukomi 3y ago
9:27 assumes i a) have any clue what time it is now b) assumes that an arbitrary time designation is more important to me than the relative distance. When talking about stuff today, as a general statement "a" is almost always false for me and "b" is false nearly 100% of the time. I don't care that it was at 9:27am I care how long ago it was. "Was this the thing i just attempted or the prior attempt?" "did this happen before or after that conversation we had like 20 minutes ago?" "a" means i have to do an additional lookup. It doesn't matter that it's easy, it's an additional lookup. "b" means that i also have to do math, and i have a really really hard time with mental math (dyscalculia is a real thing). and, as others have pointed out. Time zones suck. I'm constantly coming up against UIs that refuse to tell me the time in my time zone when i need it, or in "their" time zone when I need it. "is that actually their 9:27 am, and thus my 2:27pm or is it _my_ 9:27am?" is the type of question I'm constantly asking. And then it's followed by "oh but [person x] is in a time zone one hour off so really that would be ...8:27 or 1:27?"

djur 3y ago

I generally find the difference between "1 week ago", "1 month ago", and "1 year ago" (and "10 years ago", for that matter) way more useful than "3 hours ago" versus "5 hours ago". I'd rather see precise times for the current day than precise dates for the past.