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Feature #3148

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Dates formatted as ages are too vague

Added by Chris 0 almost 15 years ago. Updated about 11 years ago.

Status:
New
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
-
Category:
UI
Target version:
-
Start date:
2009-04-09
Due date:
% Done:

0%

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Resolution:

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Currently on http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/news:
    Redmine 0.8.2 released (5 comments)
    Added by Jean-Philippe Lang about 1 month ago
    ...
    Redmine 0.8.1 released (4 comments)
    Added by Jean-Philippe Lang about 1 month ago

The actual dates are 2009-03-07 and 2009-02-15 (more like 4 and 7 weeks ago).

I've seen dates formatted as ages on other systems that do not change units until the age is ≥ 2 x the-unit.
This provides better/more accurate information.

The algorithm goes along the lines of:

    if age < 2 hours then use minutes
    else if age < 2 days then use hours
    else if age < 2 weeks then use days
    else if age < 2 months then use weeks
    else if age < 2 years then use months
    ...


Related issues

Related to Redmine - Feature #20310: Ability to switch date format (from relative into absolute) in issue notes titlesNew

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Actions #1

Updated by Damien Couderc almost 15 years ago

I agree with Chris, dealing with high number of days is not useful.

Actions #2

Updated by Daniel Felix about 11 years ago

  • Tracker changed from Defect to Feature

This is related to the integrated function time_tag(). I don't know if this request is worth it to implement a own function?

Actions #3

Updated by Go MAEDA about 5 years ago

  • Related to Feature #20310: Ability to switch date format (from relative into absolute) in issue notes titles added
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