On 8/21/19 3:40 AM, Peter Eisentraut 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.
This is hours:minutes. days are always explicitly prepended if greater than 0. > > 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. > Maybe. TBH the whole buildfarm UI is rather dated and clunky. But it needs work from a web monkey, which I am really not. cheers andrew -- Andrew Dunstan https://www.2ndQuadrant.com PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
