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Because oftentimes you think in chunks of time not dates. If a meeting is in 3 hours in instantly know what kinds of things I can do before that meeting. If a m
by doomroot 3y ago
Because oftentimes you think in chunks of time not dates. If a meeting is in 3 hours in instantly know what kinds of things I can do before that meeting. If a meeting is at 4:45pm. I have to know the current time, calculate the difference then I can start planning my time.
- loloquwowndueo 3y agoThere’s this wonderful thing called a “watch”…
- 0fox 3y agoThe main complaint in this thread seems to be that the chunks of time reported are misleading.
- mvdtnz 3y agoSeriously? Your complaint is that you have the extra mental overhead of having to know the time?
- johnnyanmac 3y agoFor the average person, yes. Less trivial is taking into account time zones. if you're traveling and have some jet lag, "10:30" may not actually mean 10:30 to your biological clock. but "in one hour" is universal (even if your body is confused).
- funcDropShadow 3y agoYou know, you can dumb down stuff too much. But if I am travelling it is even more error prone for my computer to compute the correct difference.
- watwut 3y agoI have current time constantly on the right bottom portion of the screen. I do know the time literally any time I want to.
- dotnet00 3y agoAlmost every device you're viewing the web page on has the time showing in a corner (which, come to think of it, is surprising, by now I would've expected UX "people" to have ruined that too for everyone).
- sevrinsky 3y agoThis is exactly the distinction that needs to be drawn: Relative time is only useful within the next or past few hours. For pretty much everything else, the absolute time is more informative and clear.