Dates/Times in ticket history

Rainer Sokoll

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Jul 25, 2007, 1:43:05 AM7/25/07

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Hi,

is it possible to have "Changed on $exact_date (x days/hours ago) by
$user"? instead of "Changed x days/hours ago by $user" in the ticket
history?

Trac 0.11

Rainer

Jani Tiainen

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Jul 25, 2007, 2:40:30 AM7/25/07

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Rainer Sokoll kirjoitti:

I would give my (and about 10 fellow developer) vote for this too. Could
it be even configurable so you could define your own format?

It's just not convenient to read "1 year ago" only, specially in
commercial environment where exact dates are more than common.

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Jani Tiainen

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Jul 25, 2007, 2:42:38 AM7/25/07

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Jani Tiainen kirjoitti:

> Rainer Sokoll kirjoitti:
>> Hi,
>>
>> is it possible to have "Changed on $exact_date (x days/hours ago) by
>> $user"? instead of "Changed x days/hours ago by $user" in the ticket
>> history?
>

> I would give my (and about 10 fellow developer) vote for this too. Could
> it be even configurable so you could define your own format?

Let's add that it should be applied to all places where this "ago"
format is used now, like tickets and repository browser at least.

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Rainer Sokoll

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Jul 25, 2007, 3:00:53 AM7/25/07

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On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 09:42:38AM +0300, Jani Tiainen wrote:

> Let's add that it should be applied to all places where this "ago"
> format is used now, like tickets and repository browser at least.

If it's not possible yet, could you please file a ticket at edgewall?

Rainer

Jani Tiainen

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Jul 25, 2007, 3:19:47 AM7/25/07

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Rainer Sokoll kirjoitti:

Since I didn't found any references for such configuration or plans, I
filed a ticket #5761.

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Jani Tiainen

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Jul 25, 2007, 3:25:25 AM7/25/07

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Jani Tiainen kirjoitti:

Just a slight side note. Exact date + time can be seen when hovering
mouse over age, but that's not very user friendly.

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Jani Tiainen

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Jul 26, 2007, 2:33:04 AM7/26/07

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Jani Tiainen kirjoitti:

Well it seemed a bit "duplicate" + "intended" behaviour...

Like it was closed as "duplicate", I noticed interesting thing. First
ticket that refers to it and was "worksforme" #5298 (and this not really
work for me.. :)

It's last modified 10th of May, 2007. Ticket states that it's modified
"3 months ago". It's wrong, or right depending how you interpret it, but
"ago" usually means "earlier than". Mainly scemantics, but still.

Let's see, now it's 26th of July... So going back, one month that would
make 26th of June and one month more it would make 26th of May, and
about one month more (that makes 3 months ago) it makes 26th of April?

So something wrong here, ticket was modified 10th of May but 3 months
ago is 26th of April. April has only 30 days so difference is about 14
days, two weeks.

Dates are not even visible in printout, where relative dates are not
good, sepecially if printout has no print date/time visible.

Fortunately both can be fixed with slight CSS + template modification.
Open source 4tw... :D

And date formating seems to be planned for 0.12...

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Rainer Sokoll

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Jul 26, 2007, 3:23:31 AM7/26/07

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On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 09:33:04AM +0300, Jani Tiainen wrote:

> Fortunately both can be fixed with slight CSS + template modification.
> Open source 4tw... :D

Would you mind sharing your modification(s) with us?

Rainer

Jani Tiainen

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Jul 26, 2007, 3:28:39 AM7/26/07

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Rainer Sokoll kirjoitti:

I do. :)

I've just looked what I have to change but not done any real
modifications. I'm waiting for 0.11 (pre-)release before doing anything
else.