Sorry folks, things are crazy this week so I am a bit behind on emails... >From the user experience perspective there are two questions a user might be interested in:
1) At what exact time was this document last edited? The ISO 8601 format is possibly the right format for that information. I am not arguing against the ISO standard. 2) How long ago did I edit that document (in human terms)? ISO 8601 is sub-optimal for that as a user has to look at something like "2018-02-28T15:25:47+00:00", then look at their current time and do that math to figure out "oh, that was 5 minutes ago". The moment js style is optimized to answer this question. I would love to do a quantitative users test for that (probably won't happen due to time). The difference between these two outputs isn't about standards, it is about what question the user is trying to answer. Furthermore, that question may change depending on what a user is doing (it changes over time for a single user). Because of that, I don't think putting this as a configuration option makes sense. Having a UI control that allows a user to quickly switch date formats on the fly is probably more appropriate. In terms of the default, my hypothesis is that question 2) above is the question users are asking the majority of the time. On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 2:59 AM, Björn Johansson <bjornj...@gmail.com> wrote: > It is also standard in many European countries as well and recommended by > xkcd... > > On Tuesday, February 27, 2018 at 6:11:21 AM UTC, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: >> >> On Saturday, February 24, 2018 at 5:55:20 PM UTC+13, ellisonbg wrote: >>> >>> Not sure how I feel about showing users ISO 8601 formatted datetimes >>> though. >>> >>> It is not a particularly human friendly datetime format. >> >> >> It’s standard in Japan. And it is an international standard, after all. >> Besides which, it makes logical sense. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Project Jupyter" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to jupyter+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to jupyter@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jupyter/71b33713-d5b9-4574-94be-60be34ad02d3%40googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Brian E. Granger Associate Professor of Physics and Data Science Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo @ellisonbg on Twitter and GitHub bgran...@calpoly.edu and elliso...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Project Jupyter" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jupyter+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to jupyter@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jupyter/CAH4pYpQCadAo%2BQwDQ2bJS-Foa62fMPiLS_iaLB9%3DvP9GcOOiOA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
