265366 - Display "day counter" next to each bug/comment dates

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Bugzilla :: Creating/Changing Bugs, enhancement)

Description

[Marcin Orlowski]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041007 Debian/1.7.3-5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041007 Debian/1.7.3-5

Recently bugzilla displays just plain dates, next to each bug or comment.
However it might be a good idea to extend this information with "day counter",
known from all the Request Tracker systems. So intead of just "Opened:
2003-09-06 23:38" there could be i.e. "Opened: 2003-09-06 23:38 (1y3m5d ago)".
It gives a better picture how old the entry is

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Sebastian Zartner [:sebo]]

To pick up this bug again, there are a few more things to clarify this request and improve the UX:

- The counter should not only display days as the summary might suggest but all kinds of time spans, i.e. seconds, minutes, hours, days, etc.
- The date may be displayed instead of the time span for comments that are older than a month (like on GitHub). Though at that point the exact time is normally not important to the user anymore, so only the date should be displayed then. So e.g. 2014-06-05 08:34:27 PDT will be displayed as 2014-06-05 or 5 Jun 2014.
- Hovering the counter/date should show the date and time plus time zone in a tooltip.

There may also be a preference allowing the user to choose between displaying the exact dates or the time spans. Though not sure whether that is needed.

Sebastian

Comment 2

[Sebastian Zartner [:sebo]]

As far as I can see, the dates are now always shown in a relative format and show the absolute date when being hovered as I suggested in comment 1.
Old dates are not displayed absolutely, but I think that's ok.

Therefore I finally close this bug.

Sebastian