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Re:Some news from LWN by zeveb on Thursday August 04, 2016 @10:14AM (#12225629)
> Some of us vastly prefer a time stamp to an utterly useless relative measurement displayed.

Ditto. Maybe I loaded the page yesterday. What does '1 hour ago' mean? Was it updated by JavaScript? Is it an hour from now, or from yesterday, or what?

Give me a timestamp, and I know.

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Re:Some news from LWN by sdkmvx on Thursday August 04, 2016 @12:24PM (#12226605)
It gets even less useful as time goes on. Eventually it'll say one year ago. A timestamp would give the exact time rather than a huge range.
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