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[Michael Hudson <michael.hudson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Martin Pool wrote:

>>>> The dates sometimes look weird at the moment, because it says "3
>>>> seconds ago" which is  factually wrong by the time the page arrives in
>>>> my browser.  I think Launchpad needs some other representation of time
>>>> which goes "12:20 today", "3:30 yesterday", "29/2/2000".  Soyuz I
>>>> think recently did something similar.
>>> I like that idea. Pretty low-priority, as far as I'm concerned, but if
>>> there's already a better implementation in Soyuz (or another module)
>>> we should be consistent and use that across Launchpad.
>>>
>> As far as I'm aware, no other app in Launchpad has a better date
>> display. I believe that we are already consistent in our use of date
>> time formatters, as described in:
>>    https://dev.launchpad.net/DatetimeUsageGuide
>>
>> There are a couple of known bugs in the formatter (it maxes out at
>> "weeks", iirc). Fixing them would be pretty easy, I think.
> 
> I don't know if the feedback I'm giving relates to malone's choice of
> formatter or the implementation of that formatter.  I know a lot of
> tweaking is possible and I'm not asking for that, but I do think
> saying "%d seconds ago" in a web page is normally inappropriate.
> 
> We could be a bit South African and say "just now". :-)

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/launchpad-foundations/+bug/147428

This doesn't really have anything to do with the bug page redesign -- it
should be fixed generally.

Cheers,
mwh