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Changes human time displays to inhuman ones on GitHub. For example, a…",{"value":49,"source":43,"evidence":50},"GitHub users scanning lists of releases, commits and updates",[51],{"id":46,"by":11,"text":47},{"value":53,"source":43,"evidence":54},"Frustration with hovering over each relative time to find exact times",[55],{"id":46,"by":11,"text":47},[],"unknown",{"praise":59,"objections":72,"requests":91,"questions":116,"alternatives":121},[60],{"value":61,"source":62,"evidence":63},"Relative time is useful for recent items","commenter",[64,68],{"id":65,"by":66,"text":67},"33455965","solarkraft","If it doesn't explicitly mention the year, it's the current one. I think it's pretty great and reduces mental burden.",{"id":69,"by":70,"text":71},"33494984","julienreszka","I disagree, relative time is awesome.",[73,83],{"value":74,"source":62,"evidence":75},"Relative times are hard to scan in lists and hide exact dates",[76,80],{"id":77,"by":78,"text":79},"33462523","buttercraft","Maybe it reduces mental burden when looking at one or a few items, but it sure doesn't help when scanning a list of items.",{"id":81,"by":78,"text":82},"33451855","How did this \"days ago\" date trend ever get started? It's absolutely horrible. Another trend I've seen is to spell out the full name of the month but then leave out the year.…",{"value":84,"source":62,"evidence":85},"Hover-only timestamps are tedious",[86,87],{"id":81,"by":78,"text":82},{"id":88,"by":89,"text":90},"33450549","Raicuparta","One annoying result of this \"days ago\" trend is how it obviously doesn't for screenshots of articles \u002F tweets \u002F etc.",[92,103,110],{"value":93,"source":62,"evidence":94},"Use 24-hour or ISO 8601 format instead of 12-hour",[95,99],{"id":96,"by":97,"text":98},"33449524","qwerty456127","> `31 Oct 2022, 5:34 pm IST`. Not inhuman enough. 12-hour time format is way too human, only used in spoken colloquial language outside the US. Ideally it should be…",{"id":100,"by":101,"text":102},"33452956","celadin","24 hour time at the very least! 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