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| * MacSlow -> lunch | 11:56 | |
| tedg | mpt: Can we talk about time a little bit? :) | 15:36 |
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| tedg | mpt: Mark had mentioned having the time in the messaging indicator be time elapsed. | 15:36 |
| tedg | mpt: I was just going to do minutes if it's minutes and hours if it's hours. Do you think it needs to be more sophisticated? | 15:36 |
| mpt | tedg, not sure, but my first thought was to show relative time for <60 minutes ago and absolute time for greater | 15:40 |
| tedg | mpt: That seems like a confusing change. I think having both would confuse me. | 15:41 |
| tedg | For sure you couldn't look at it quickly. | 15:42 |
| mpt | tedg, Nautilus has a similar switch, using relative dates for things modified today or yesterday, absolute dates for anything older. | 15:43 |
| mpt | and Thunderbird omits the day for messages received today. | 15:43 |
| tedg | mpt: The mail case isn't change the information provided, it's just changing the amount of detail. We'd be changing from relative to absolute. | 15:46 |
| mpt | sure | 15:46 |
| tedg | mpt: And in the Nautilus case they have more space to provide that distinction. They can do "4 minutes ago" where we'd be doing "3 m". | 15:46 |
| mpt | true | 15:47 |
| mpt | so for space reasons, I think it would make more sense just to stick with absolute times | 15:48 |
| tedg | For locale reasons I'd prefer to stick with relative times ;) | 15:48 |
| tedg | It solves the problem of "I prefer X type of time" which is tricky, and goes beyond locale. | 15:49 |
| tcole | there's also the issue that people think more in terms of relative time | 15:58 |
| tedg | tcole: Absolutely! ;) | 16:02 |
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