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Re:Show HN: Inhuman Time – change “3 days ago” to actual tim... by hombre_fatal on Thursday November 03, 2022 @12:56PM (#33453907)
It’s what most people want and what people have to keep calculating when you give them time stamps. If you are in a decision making position you’d want to do the same research to see what your users want.

I like to make it show the time stamp on hover / tap.

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Re:Show HN: Inhuman Time – change “3 days ago” to actual tim... by kkaske on Thursday November 03, 2022 @01:45PM (#33454675)
> I like to make it show the time stamp on hover / tap.

This is exactly what GitHub does (on hover). I'm not sure how they calculate what format to show it in on hover. For me, it's a good balance of getting a feel for the time at a glance while allowing you to see actual time on hover when you need it.

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Re:Show HN: Inhuman Time – change “3 days ago” to actual tim... by alexvoda on Friday November 04, 2022 @03:41AM (#33463279)
I can believe that in the general population that is what people want.

However, for the population of GitHub users, I am certain a significantly higher percentage desire precise timestamps. Maybe even in ISO 8601 / IETF RFC 3339.

Are you claiming that even among GitHub users the percentage desiring "days ago" is overwhelming? Based on what data?

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