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Pet peeve: I mostly hate these.

Anything for maybe the last hour or I can see; "1 day and 5 hours ago" and making me hover over the string (and pray that there's an alt text available that I still can't copy-paste) is very annoying.

I really wish, space permitting, web designers would start at least including the actual timestamp in the regular/non-alt text as well, at the very least for professional tools if not for social media sites.



agreed it can be misused so easily.

One time it works is when your team is across many time zones, the data being listed spans many time zones, and what’s important is knowing the recent events from older ones. And yes, also showing the absolute UTC stamps too




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