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Show HN: Inhuman Time – change “3 days ago” to actual time on GitHub

38 pointsby sharat87over 2 years ago

7 comments

buttercraftover 2 years ago
How did this &quot;days ago&quot; date trend ever get started? It&#x27;s absolutely horrible.<p>Another trend I&#x27;ve seen is to spell out the full name of the month but then leave out the year. Gee, thanks for making me hover over every single date just to see what it actually is.
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qwerty456127over 2 years ago
&gt; `31 Oct 2022, 5:34 pm IST`.<p>Not inhuman enough. 12-hour time format is way too human, only used in spoken colloquial language outside the US.<p>Ideally it should be 2022-10-31T12:34Z.
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sharat87over 2 years ago
Hey HN, this is a quick tiny browser extension to change human time displays to inhuman ones, on GitHub.<p>Changes human time displays to inhuman ones on GitHub. For example, a time displayed as `3 days ago`, will be changed to `31 Oct 2022, 5:34 pm IST`.<p>The advantage of this, is say if you are viewing a page of releases for example, and all releases show `3 days ago`, since they are all off by a few minutes or hours, it can be really frustrating to have to hover over each of them to find out the exact time of each release.<p>This applies in commits page, releases page, updates pages etc.
Raicupartaover 2 years ago
One annoying result of this &quot;days ago&quot; trend is how it obviously doesn&#x27;t for screenshots of articles &#x2F; tweets &#x2F; etc.
lejindover 2 years ago
Would be nice to have this feature on every site, not only GitHub. Is there such extension?
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exabrialover 2 years ago
I&#x27;d also love a browser extension that would unshorten strings that are too.......<p>Most annoying design antipattern ever implemented.
nullish_signalover 2 years ago
It always frustrates me when Twitter and actual news sites use this awful now-based time format