The viewer's "x years ago" info sucks ;-)

[Per Funke]

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On Fri, Apr 14, 2023 at 12:25 PM Tobias Leupold <tl at stonemx.de> wrote:

> Am Freitag, 14. April 2023, 08:27:20 CEST schrieb josephj at main.nc.us:
> > Nerd answer: Just provide a place to add a strftime format string and
> make
> > everybody happy (at least those who know what strftime is). :)
> >
> > Joe
>
> But that would not allow heuristics to distinguish short periods of time
> from
> longer ones. And this is IMHO something that should not be configurable.
> Or at
> least, adding such decision rules in a configurable way would require a
> quite
> big and complex configuration dialog. I'm not sure if this would be "too
> much"
> for the aber KPA "User" (no developer, no coder, not even an enthusiast)
> ...
>
> >
> > > Am Mittwoch, 12. April 2023, 13:27:11 CEST schrieb Tobias Leupold:
> > >> Am Mittwoch, 12. April 2023, 06:22:07 CEST schrieb Per Funke:
> > >> > "1.83 y/m/d ago" is unconventional but attractive
> > >> > IMHO,
> > >> > Per Funke
> > >>
> > >> Hmmm ... I think this would be too unconventional, especially facing
> the
> > >> fact that a year is not divided into decimal units (it's 12 months
> after
> > >> all, not 10).
> > >
> > > Maybe it's just me, but using decimal representation for time units
> does
> > > not
> > > seem so odd. "1.83 years ago" is easy to read and understand, even if
> one
> > > does
> > > not intuitively realize that it is the same as "1 year, 9 months, 28
> days,
> > > 19
> > > hours 20 minutes ago".
> > > Plus: it eliminates the need to come up with a universal way to shorten
> > > this
> > > (should it be 1 year, 10 months, or 1 year, 9months, almost 29 days?).
> > >
> > > Would a hybrid approach work better in your opinion? I.e. "1 year, 9.96
> > > months". This does arguably combine the best and worst of both
> approaches:
> > >
> > > - ugly to compute (depends on the length of the month)
> > > - decimal point in non-decimal unit (e.g. "4.6 months")
> > > + canonical representation (always "X years, Y months", no complicated
> > > heuristic needed)
> > > + more intuitive than pure decimal notation ("1 year 9.96 months ago"
> vs
> > > "1.83
> > > years ago")
> > >
> > >> Any objections if I implement this in a way I would expect it to be
> > >> (both
> > >> for birthdays/ages and timespans) soonish and you all have a look at
> it
> > >> then?
> > >
> > > Sure - I'll gladly take a look at that work branch and comment on it
> ;-)
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > >   Johannes
>
>
>
>
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