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K.I.S.S. (lemmy.world)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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[–] 45 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I 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.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    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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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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