Option to show absolute dates #5972
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When investigating history, sometimes exact dates are more useful than "2 mo ago" -- would it be possible to have a toggle for this? |
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B being able to tap on the "2mo ago" to see the full date/time stamp displayed would work rather than (or in addition to) a global toggle |
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Thank you for your suggestion! We will track this issue internally :) |
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+1 for making this an option. "1h ago" is not precise (can be anything from 60 to 119 minutes ago), and I don't like "1 months ago" or older. Workaround: Still the option to show absolute dates should be a GitHub standard feature. |
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A keyboard shortcut to toggle absolute time vs relative time would be fantastic |
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Global option, not only for Mobile. The need has been further instigated by the recent (probably not much recent) introduction of the even more "friendly" timestamps: whose unfriendliness rendered the issue urgent. [ [ |
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If someone is fine with ISO datetime format that will appear after focusing on relative date I made simplest possible user script: https://gist.github.com/matrixik/7bb0d7a290c66e6de29d183c4a38424d |
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I consider such general purpose content filter a vital part of browser core: Many more notable things are notoriously wrong with mobile browsers. |
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That's another kettle of fish, but I'd consider tremendously helpful if browsers could be made to stick with the user's preferred time zone and format reliably, and those choices would include UTC and ISO formats, respectively. It's a shame such a basic concept has gone down the "we know better what you want" chute. That being said, it's neither relevant to this issue nor very likely to make it disappear. |
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Not only absolute dates for distant timestamps is needed, but it's also essential for near ones too. How do you compare "yesterday" with another event happened at "2024-05-08 10:42:58"? Hovering works for one timestamp at a time. It's laborious to hover on and read a couple of them. |
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Partly for such illy defined "Wed, 08 May 2024 10:42:58 +0000" non-sense could even receive wide adoption... |
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Thank you for your suggestion! We will track this issue internally :)