#2732 - Support contextual times

By Chris Graham
Added 17th Jul 2016, 10:56 AM
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Identifier	#2732
Issue type	Feature request or suggestion
Title	Support contextual times
Status	Open
Tags	Non-bundled addon: Activities (custom)
Handling member	Deleted
Addon	core
Description	We support contextual dates ("Today", "Yesterday"), but not contextual times. It would be nice for a time or date_time query to be able to return like "10 minutes ago". However, this is also problematic - it breaks cache layers. So it might have to be made opt-in in the code and only show in certain places, e.g. the forum.
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By Guest posted 17th Jul 2016, 11:04 AM

Oh, actually we can implement via a get_timezoned_time_tempcode function.

By Guest posted 12th Oct 2016, 9:46 PM

I agree this would be useful on the forum and notifications, and perhaps the activity feed addon as well. I'm not so sure contextual dates and times would be a good idea on content though (such as publish dates for news, galleries, downloads, and so on). Since content is not a "stream", like forums, notifications, and activity feeds are... it would probably be best to leave actual dates and times for those.

#2732 - Support contextual times

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