Anything longer ago than yesterday should just say the actual date

Re:Anything longer ago than yesterday should just say the ac... by jjav on Saturday October 14, 2023 @05:41PM (#37884506)

I feel like there was a UI designer convention and they had a contest on the best way to hate on users with GUI microagressions and this "N days ago" trend won so now it's everywhere.

I don't want to do date math in my head! Just give me the precise timestamp!

Don't throw away information with nonsense like "1 year ago" when as the parent post says, that could mean anything in a huge range of days.

Just show the actual timestamp!

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Re:Anything longer ago than yesterday should just say the ac... by aristus on Saturday October 14, 2023 @09:21PM (#37885924)

IIRC this started in the Mac finder with OSX 10.2. It bled onto the web a few years later with the advent of UI frameworks and blog feeds.

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Re:Anything longer ago than yesterday should just say the ac... by jjav on Sunday October 15, 2023 @01:59AM (#37887278)

> IIRC this started in the Mac finder with OSX 10.2.

I see proper timestamps in Finder in Date Modified column.

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Re:Anything longer ago than yesterday should just say the ac... by Cockbrand on Sunday October 15, 2023 @06:48AM (#37888651)

Relative dates in Finder list view have been around since at least Mac OS 9.x, see for example this screenshot: https://i.stack.imgur.com/bdY7i.jpg

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Re:Anything longer ago than yesterday should just say the ac... by troupo on Sunday October 15, 2023 @09:09AM (#37889433)

IIRC the trend started with Twitter

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Re:Anything longer ago than yesterday should just say the ac... by krater23 on Sunday October 15, 2023 @03:34AM (#37887740)

I feel like they regulary do this contests and are only working in making UI more shitty every day.

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Re:Anything longer ago than yesterday should just say the ac... by HeavyStorm on Sunday October 15, 2023 @08:19AM (#37889142)

Hah, like UI designers hold conventions...

The current generation of UI / UX people come usually from non tech backgrounds and are people very keen on... Making things pretty. They seem to know very little, however, about usability and other principles that we, developers, used to care about.

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