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"Two weeks ago" and "ISO 8601" are not the only options. I prefer a user-readable date-time like "June 26, 9:35am" or "Yesterday at 2:12pm". They are best much
by mvdtnz 3y ago
"Two weeks ago" and "ISO 8601" are not the only options. I prefer a user-readable date-time like "June 26, 9:35am" or "Yesterday at 2:12pm". They are best much more precise than "Yesterday" or "1 hour ago".
- drekipus 3y ago"1 hour ago" As an Australian this is actually a lot better for me. If there's a time like "10:43am" I have no idea whether that's UTC , my timezone, or some American timezone. You could argue that they should put the timezone there, but they don't, or they will but only for American TZ. and I don't want to dig around my profile settings to find it. Even hacker News is relative. I know that I am responding 34 minutes after your post.
- mvdtnz 3y agoI assume if you're displaying a time to me with no timezone specified then my system timezone is being used. If I find a system that's displaying a timezone-less time that's not my system time zone I won't be using that system much longer. But nowadays this is exceedingly rare. I am in New Zealand so I understand your perspective, I just don't think it's a major problem.