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“Yesterday” time specification shown when it was actually the day before yesterday
I asked the question on 26 January at 16:07:44.
Today, on 28 January at 15:06:12 GMT+2 it is marked as "asked yesterday", while tooltip message still displays the "2 days back time":
I've found almost the similar question on Meta from April 2011. And I guess the "problem" remains because of different time zone used internally, besides my basic calculations still can't give me "yesterday" for the given time (and it seems I'm wrong).
Anyway, even if my maths is bad, and the question can be tagged with status-bydesign, I see an obviously confusing discrepancy of labels and tooltips. Maybe we need to change the contents of labels to make things more clear? Since mentally for me "yesterday" was yesterday from the wake up till night sleep, but not 46 or 47 hours ago. Meanwhile many even might not know what Z
in the date means.
Let it be a feature request. What I see to be less confusing:
- before 48 hours: "asked/answered X hours ago"
- after 48 hours: "asked/answered MMM DD 'YY at HH:MM"
In order to prove my idea, here is a link to English online dictionary for the word "day". We can see that there are several common meanings like: "when you are awake", "not night", "time at work", which contradicts with the astronomical meaning of the word.