Relative timestamps are not precise enough for release managers
Bug #94393 reported by
Tollef Fog Heen
This bug affects 2 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Launchpad itself |
Triaged
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High
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
A little while ago, launchpad switched from proper timestamps (2007-03-20 20:05) to age-based timestamps (21 hours ago). At the same time (I believe) the precision of timestamps in bug comments in malone was reduced from at least minute precision to day precision.
Please revert this change, it's making my job as a release manager a lot harder since I now have to do maths to determine if a package made it onto a CD image (for instance).
Changed in launchpad: | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
status: | Unconfirmed → Confirmed |
Changed in malone: | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
summary: |
- Relative timestamps are confusing + Relative timestamps are not precise enough for release managers |
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There is no need to do math, the exact timestamp is still available as title attribute on the date. So it should appear in a popup if you over the mouse over the age (or date when more than one day old).
I agree that this isn't very discoverable.