Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> writes: > On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 9:40 AM Peter Eisentraut < > peter.eisentr...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > >> I find the time displays like >> >> 01:03 ago >> >> on the buildfarm status page unhelpful. >> >> First, I can never tell whether this is hours-minutes or minutes-seconds >> -- there is probably a less ambiguous format available. >> >> But more importantly, the page doesn't say when it was generated, so a >> relative time like this is meaningless. The page might have most >> recently reloaded last night. That means when I look at the page, I >> *always* have to reload it first to make sense of the times. >> >> I notice that the page source actually includes absolute times that are >> then converted to relative using some JavaScript. Could we perhaps just >> turn that off? Or preferably convert to local time. I can much easier >> make sense of an absolute local time: I can compare that to the clock in >> the corner of the screen, and I can compare that, say, to a commit >> timestamp. >> > > It used to be that the "ago" part was generated on the server, but Andrew > changed that to the fixed timestamp + javascript to improve cachability and > thus performance. Perhaps now that it's that it could be as easy as adding > a checkbox to the page (which could remember your preference in a cookie) > that switches between the two modes?
The Javscript could also be made to update the "ago" part every minute, and show the absoulte time as a tooltip, which is what pretty much every other website does. - ilmari -- "A disappointingly low fraction of the human race is, at any given time, on fire." - Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
