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Comments on Show time tooltip for last edit as well

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Show time tooltip for last edit as well

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When I move the mouse over the “posted … ago” text below a post, I get a tooltip with the actual posting time. However if I do the same on the last edited field (the one with the pencil at front), I don't. This is also confirmed on inspecting the HTML, where the “posted” field has a title attribute with the time, but the “last edited” field doesn't.

Apart from the inconsistency, I think the exact time is sometimes useful information (especially given that the time spans get quite imprecise pretty quickly).

Therefore I propose that such a tooltip should be added also for the last-edited field.

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Also slightly improve format of exact time (2 comments)
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Also slightly improve format of exact time
Trilarion‭ wrote over 2 years ago

Replace T in the center with a space.

Canina‭ wrote over 2 years ago · edited over 2 years ago

Trilarion‭ Technically that makes the date and the time two distinct points in time, as opposed to parts of one point-in-time identifier. In practice, I agree. And in that venue, might be worth changing the "Z" time zone specifier at the end to " UTC" (with a space) as well, for ease of reading.

Most people who use the web UI are probably more interested in a readable-at-a-glance timestamp than strict ISO 8601 conformance.