Redmine

For recent events, a time indication relative to the present time is much more readable than the absolute datetime. For example, "3 hours & 31 minutes ago" is much more readable than "2010-05-09 14:56".

It would be nice if Redmine could (possibly optionally) display dates in such a format. There is a loss of precision : if you give hours and minutes, you don't have the seconds count, but that is useless information anyway.

I think a very good default is to have the readable date format in the index pages (view issues and such) and the precise, absolute datetime displayed on the item page.