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Sidenote on showing (or not showing) timestamps. Consider a page with 10 rows, and in each row you show the relative date. 2 issues with that: 1) If I see a
by WirelessGigabit 3y ago
Sidenote on showing (or not showing) timestamps.
Consider a page with 10 rows, and in each row you show the relative date.
2 issues with that:
1) If I see a whole page and I see 1 week ago the range is 7 days. If I see 1 year ago the range is 365 days. That is too much for most of the things.
2) If I am on a page without visual indication of sort order and I'm on a page that shows 10 entries with '1 year ago' I have no clue about the sort order.
I hate relative dates.
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- Terr_ 3y agoTo be pedantic, that's not a problem of relatives times as much as the data being lossy vague approximations. Still, "1 year, 7 months, 2 days, 5 hours, 3 minutes ago" isn't always ideal either, not even when it's done in a lexically sortable way. Ultimately it boils down to a choice which doesn't match problem the user has, and in different circumstances someone might want relative or absolute.
- WirelessGigabit 3y agoIt can be solved by putting in an absolute date. I still don't understand what kind of problem relative dates solved.
- Terr_ 3y agoThey work when relative-times are part of the question or mental model the user has when approaching the system. Then the user doesn't have to mentally cross-convert between relative measures and absolute timestamps, which is less error-prone and annoying.