Sujet : Re: Desktop file "flies" away
De : nunojsilva (at) *nospam* invalid.invalid (Nuno Silva)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.miscDate : 31. Aug 2024, 12:10:40
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Organisation : A noiseless patient Spider
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On 2024-08-30, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
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It's time all user interfaces insisted on ISO 8601 dates.
I first realized over 50 years ago that year-month-day
is the only reasonable date format. It sorts better,
and it's less likely to trigger the month/day vs. day/month
confusion.
>
I agree that all data entry code should incorporate
brutally thorough validation routines.
There's now apparently a trend in UIs to go with morphing different
formats, based on how recently something happened.
My 2c are: either make that a note next to the proper timestamp (that
one in a consistent format), or show only the proper timestamp. I rarely
want the "how many seconds/minutes ago was this" information in a
time-of-event field, and when I want it, I'll have much less trouble
computing it from, say, YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS in UTC.
Even if you put the proper timestamp as a tooltip, my 2c are that it
should be the other way around. Make "X minutes ago" the tooltip.
-- Nuno Silva