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Re:Anything longer ago than yesterday should just say the ac... by mvdtnz on Saturday October 14, 2023 @01:01PM (#37882169)
If the user needs to know the details of your "time display library" to disambiguate "last week" then you've already lost. It's bad UX. Stop doing it.
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Re:Anything longer ago than yesterday should just say the ac... by mynameisvlad on Saturday October 14, 2023 @02:29PM (#37882955)
But… users don’t. Literally no library out there does what the parent commenter claims they could do. They all use sensible cutovers for relative dates.
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Re:Anything longer ago than yesterday should just say the ac... by mvdtnz on Saturday October 14, 2023 @03:31PM (#37883515)
The point is that if a user sees "last week" it's ambiguous. They DON'T KNOW that your libraries don't behave that way. All they see is "last week". Are you really not getting this?
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