Re: Desktop file "flies" away

On 2024-08-30, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

>
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.

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Nuno Silva