1158010 - provide a standard and simple way to render relative dates, in perl and javascript

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(bugzilla.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

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on bmo we use both Time::Duration and TimeAgo.

to be honest i'm not happy with either of them.  timeago is too imprecise ("about a year ago", and "this evening"), and Time::Duration is too exact ("265 days ago").


i've been poking around the internets and there's ways we can make this much simpler and better.  what github does seems about right, i'll mirror them.

Comment 1

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Attachment: 1158010_1.patch

- add time_ago to Bugzilla::Util
- add timeAgo to js/utils.js
- remove and replace existing calls to Time::Duration, TimeAgo, and bespoke methods

Comment 3

[David Lawrence [:dkl]]

Comment on attachment 8600957 [details] [diff] [review]
1158010_1.patch

Review of attachment 8600957 [details] [diff] [review]:
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Slight bit-rot. Fix on commit.

patching file extensions/BugModal/template/en/default/bug_modal/header.html.tmpl
Hunk #1 FAILED at 49.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file extensions/BugModal/template/en/default/bug_modal/header.html.tmpl.rej

Comment 4

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To ssh://[e-mail]/webtools/bmo/bugzilla.git
   087f740..35aab8c  master -> master