Update indication should be date instead of something imprecise like"1 month" #219

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Jan-Albrecht · 2024-07-19T16:32:29+02:00

Jan-Albrecht commented

2024-07-19 16:32:29 +02:00

Hello,
Update indication on info tile should be date instead of something imprecise like"1 month" , so you can inmediately see if there were recent changes... yes i know date appears on hovering, but then why just not give the date directly?

Hello, Update indication on info tile should be date instead of something imprecise like"1 month" , so you can inmediately see if there were recent changes... yes i know date appears on hovering, but then why just not give the date directly?

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Pablo Vazquez commented

2024-07-20 03:31:54 +02:00

should be date instead of something imprecise like"1 month" , so you can inmediately see if there were recent changes

There were recent changes, as recent as "around one month ago".

For items that update regularly, using relative times is definitely better. Everyone understands "10h ago". If instead it would display today's date and time down to the hour, it'd be long and can be confusing if users are in different time zones. Absolute times use more space, need to be localized (7/4/24 is April 7th, or July 4th?), and are really not that important. You want to know if the extension was updated sometime recently (Blender releases are every 4 months), not necessarily down to a specific date. In that case you can hover over the date and get the full time stamp.

Closing since it's not really a bug.

> should be date instead of something imprecise like"1 month" , so you can inmediately see if there were recent changes There were recent changes, as recent as "around one month ago". For items that update regularly, using relative times is definitely better. Everyone understands "10h ago". If instead it would display today's date and time down to the hour, it'd be long and can be confusing if users are in different time zones. Absolute times use more space, need to be localized (7/4/24 is April 7th, or July 4th?), and are really not that important. You want to know if the extension was updated sometime recently (Blender releases are every 4 months), not necessarily down to a specific date. In that case you can hover over the date and get the full time stamp. Closing since it's not really a bug.

Pablo Vazquez closed this issue

2024-07-20 03:31:55 +02:00

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