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? -- Magnus Hagander Me: https://www.hagander.net/ <http://www.hagander.net/> Work: https://www.redpill-linpro.com/ <http://www.redpill-linpro.com/>
