On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 8:06 PM, Ashwin Hirschi <fossi...@reflexis.com> wrote: > > It seems to me that the display of file ages would be improved by removing > the minus signs. > > People would then read e.g. "64.7 days" as: this file is 64.7 days *old* > (or, older than the reference point). > > Another way to look at it is this: why refer to them as file *ages* and > then use *negative* values? > > My own age is *not* a negative value, even though I may be getting on a > bit... [;-)]
I agree (sorry for coming late to the party, I am catching up on recent weeks) Another way to think of it is that since file ages will always be negative, the '-' seems redundant, and looks weird. It would also be more consistent with what people are familiar with from every other VCS UI. I also think that expressing parts of hours/days/months/years as a decimal point is non-natural. It should either be rounded/truncated to a whole number, or expressed as "X days and Y hours" or some such. Another point: It seems to me (correct me if I am wrong) that the ages are relative to the checkin time. I think relative to "now" would be more useful/informative/consistent with other systems (I don't think consistency with other systems is always a factor, only when it comes to UI) Baruch -- ˙uʍop-ǝpısdn sı ɹoʇıuoɯ ɹnoʎ 'sıɥʇ pɐǝɹ uɐɔ noʎ ɟı
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