I like "ago" format with hover full date value. Thanks for putting
effort in this!

LZ

On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 3:39 PM, Marek Hulán <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to suggest one recommended way of displaying date/time information on
> all pages. We started a discussion in a PR [1] that would change the format
> for config reports, please take a look there for possible solutions.
>
> After a discussion with Roxanne (cc) on another page we agreed on following
> form to be the best "April 10, 2017 17:08". So no timezone, no seconds, time
> is localized in current user timezone. Users can quickly see how long it was
> before so we didn't display the "x y ago" information. We could add it to
> tooltip if needed.
>
> Once nice thing about this format is that Rails provide helper to generate it.
> One could use something like
>
> <%= l(report.last_report_at, :format => :long) %>
>
> which prints "April 10, 2017 17:08". The month name and potentially the format
> is localized based on current user locale.
>
> So before I start sending PRs to various places, I'd like to know if we can
> all agree on one form, ideally the suggested one, and try to use it where it
> make sense. Please vote either in here or in the linked PR.
>
> The list of various places and formats in Foreman and plugins:
>
> * Core *
> reports page - reported at column: "about 1 month ago"
> dashboard page: "Generated at 12 Apr 12:41"
> facts - reported at columns: "about 1 year ago"
> trends page: "Last updated 1 day ago"
> audit: "about 1 hour ago" with tooltip saying "April 12, 2017 11:25"
> hosts - last report column: 2 months ago
> smart proxy - logs - time column: "11. 4. 2017 18:52:31"
> smart proxy - puppet ca - ca certificate expiry date: "in almost 4 years"
>
> * Plugins*
> discovery - last facts upload: "1 day ago"
> openscap reports: "about 1 month ago"
> tasks - task details info: "2 minutes ago" with tooltip "2017-04-12 12:49:00
> UTC"
> rex - jobs: "about 19 hours ago"
> rex - logs: "2017-04-11 19:48:09 +0200"
> katello - last checking, registered at: "2017-04-12 11:42:06 UTC"
> katello - content host tasks: 4/12/17 1:42 PM
>
> Katello would probably need to implement the rails helper (or whatever format
> we chose) in their UI helpers. Hopefully that's something easy to do.
>
> [1] https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/pull/4419#issue-217527751
>
> Thanks for reading and sorry for the long email
>
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