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What are some situations where you find calculating the relative date useful? Personally, if I care about a timestamp at all it's because I want to compare it
by myk9001 3y ago
What are some situations where you find calculating the relative date useful?
Personally, if I care about a timestamp at all it's because I want to compare it to another date (maybe a past date, maybe a present or future one): a deadline, an event, a birthday. Relative dates actually make such comparisons harder.
On the other hand, seeing an actual date like 2022/10/03 it's dead simple to tell that was a year ago, it's equally easy to tell whether something happened this year, or last month, or two days ago, etc.
- johnnyanmac 3y agowe're talking about a casual context, so the average user doesn't need an exact time stamp on when a picture was taken. The average person doesn't talk in time stamps, so the paradigm was shifted to display how people communicated. Another nitpick is that relative dates solve the date format issue. No need to fuss over YYYY/MM/DD or DD/MM/YYYY or any other permutation, but we all can agree on when "7 months ago" was.