Please display Date/Time in the "Sorry, the program %s closed unexpectedly." dialog

[Daniel Hahler]

Binary package hint: apport

Please display the info from the crash file's "Date" field in the popup, which allows the user to report the crash/problem.

This makes it a lot easier to classify, what this crash may have been related to.

I see, that you can get this info later from the "Display info" button, but nonetheless - I think it would help a lot, if you see something like "This happened x minutes ago." or "This happened yesterday, 22:35"; of course, just using the value from the Date field would be enough already.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: apport 0.129
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: apport
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-8-generic i686

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Nice idea. It should be hidden if it happened less than a minute ago, but for system crashes, crashes from cron etc. that would be useful.

[Ingo Gerth (igerth)]

Well I would like to implement this functionality. I have never fixed a bug before, though, so do not expect anything too soon!

[Philip Muškovac (yofel)]

@Ingo: If you're working on this, please set the Bug Status to 'In Progress' - thanks for giving this a shot!

[kroq-gar78 (kroq-gar78)]

If you select "More details" or something from the new Apport dialog, it shows when it crashed. So... set this to released? Or make it a little more obvious?...

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

The information has been there before (in the details).
While it might be easier to access it from the start now, it still is not displayed directly.