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Bug 218404

Summary:	Display nicely formatted timestamps
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	Willian Mitsuda <wmitsuda>
Component:	Mylyn	Assignee:	Project Inbox <mylyn-triaged>
Status:	CLOSED MOVED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	robert.elves
Version:	dev
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Willian Mitsuda

2008-02-09 00:40:02 EST

When reading bugzilla email notifications, I usually take a look at the email timestamp to know how long the bug was updated. It is nice because gmail shows friendly strings like "5 minutes ago", "2 days ago". I think we could adopt this style together with the default formatting, at least for new comments, e.g. "2008-02-09 11:00 -0400 (2 hours ago)".

Comment 1 Steffen Pingel

2008-02-09 00:57:54 EST

I like that idea. The actual time stamp could still be displayed in a tooltip.

Comment 2 Eugene Kuleshov

2008-02-09 03:48:00 EST

Is this about time in the editor comments? In that case, the relative time shouldn't be replacing the absolute time and it should be added to the end like Willian suggested and how GMail does it. 

Personally I don't see relative time that much useful (given that both scheduled and due dates all absolute).

Comment 3 Steffen Pingel

2008-02-09 16:27:46 EST

My GMail account shows a shortened date, e.g. "Feb 8 (1 day ago)" or  "12:46 pm (40 minutes ago)" and the tooltip has the full time stamp.

Comment 4 Mik Kersten

2008-02-12 23:44:57 EST

Should we make this a duplicate of bug 218400?  I added "formatted" to that header so if so we can someone can just comment with the "... ago" proposal which will be easy to add.

Comment 5 Willian Mitsuda

2008-02-13 09:18:14 EST

(In reply to comment #4)
> Should we make this a duplicate of bug 218400?  I added "formatted" to that
> header so if so we can someone can just comment with the "... ago" proposal
> which will be easy to add.
> 

I thought about that before opening this bug, but ended up splitting the bug so we don't mix the discussion (one is about using local timezones, this one is about improving the communication).

Comment 6 Eclipse Webmaster

2022-11-15 11:45:08 EST

Mylyn has been restructured, and our issue tracking has moved to GitHub [1].

We are closing ~14K Bugzilla issues to give the new team a fresh start. If you feel that this issue is still relevant, please create a new one on GitHub.

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