This shit is so annoying on GitHub. I feel like changes to a codebase are something that really makes sense to describe in hard dates and times. Telling me that some dumbass (me) introduced a bug “3 months ago” is not enough info, especially when it was actually 3 months and 24 days.
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hark@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoI absolutely hate fuzzy dates, not only because of the problem you mentioned, but also because they can get wildly inaccurate. For example, on youtube I often see something counted as posted a year ago, but if I look at the absolute timestamp, it was actually 1 year and 10 months. That’s too big of a difference to truncate.
GalacticSushi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
filcuk@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
It’s a user friendly design.
2026-02-23 12:01 is so much ‘harder’ to parse at a glance than 1 minute ago.
Obviously this doesn’t care about archival or screenshots, it’s for the user looking at the live page.I think it would be nice if sites offered option to toggle, but most have no reason for the extra investment.
hark@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
True, but maybe a good compromise would be having the fuzzy date in parentheses/brackets if there’s enough space.
TheBat@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Fine, we will have oily dates.
lillardfair@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I like my dates pitted