Questions tagged [timestamps]
For questions about timestamps that appear in notices and tooltips upon hovering those notices.
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Please implement a way to see post timestamps on the mobile site
On the desktop site, when looking at posts that are recent enough, sometimes the site just says "1 hour ago."
However, if I hover over it, it shows a nice little timestamp:
I would love to be able ...
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Add time stamp tooltip to site launches/age
This is a follow-up question/request to Is there a way to know the new launched sites over the years? and is related to this Area 51 discussion: Tooltip showing date/time of site launch.
The All ...
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What does “yst” represent in chat message timestamps?
Most of the time the time stamps shown on messages in chat show the time to me in my local time. The fourth post in this large image is mine and that's what time it was here.
But the previous two ...
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When can I start seeing 2019 in the date?
I’ve noticed the obvious pattern from an edit in a question. First, it displays the number of hours, days etc. After a couple of days (?) it begins to display the actual date of posting.
I seem to ...
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Show added date when sorting Favourites list by “added”
Here is a particular use case:
I've started to use the favourites, as suggested by this comment, to save questions/posts as a reminder that they need editing:
On the smaller sites you should rate ...
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The drop-down menu on mobile chat shows incorrect time [duplicate]
As far as I know this happens randomly.
On reloading the page it shows the correct time for the last message sent. I don't think that Stack Exchange existed 17656 days (48.3 years) ago :P
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Proposal: Timestamp at StackExchange sites answers/comments without time after 3 days
My idea is that it would be some improvement, if after 3 days the timestamp is removed from your question/answer.
Thus, only the date can stay and it is quite enough. Still, sorting by oldest would ...
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Comment timestamp is not showing in Firefox ESR
Since a short while ago, I can no longer see timestamps on comments. Is this some new feature, or has something gone wrong with my ad blocker?
For instance, when I visit this post, I see this:
Note: ...
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User profile creation time for the profiles created today is not showing anymore
On user profile pages, the relative timestamp such as
Member for 2 days
has exact date and time of profile creation, available on hover:
<span title="2017-10-28 20:35:56Z">2 days</span&...
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How to sort unanswered questions by date?
I saw the answer to this question, but no where mentioned about sorting by date which I am asking in this question.
How to sort unanswered questions by date?
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Time is not shown for flags submitted yesterday [duplicate]
There is a bit of a discrepancy when showing when a flag was submitted. A flag submitted yesterday does not show at what time it was submitted, it just states "yesterday".
Other, older, flags show ...
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How can I ask a question while not being online? [duplicate]
Just came across this question (soon to be deleted, don't be surprised to find it gone)
It says there:
I then turned to the profile of the OP, there it says:
How is that possible? (and yes, I ...
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Add timepoint tooltip for an item with earned badge in the achivements dialog
If you cover reputation change in the achivements dialog by mouse pointer - tooltip with timepoint will be shown:
For badge items no such behaviour exists:
If you want to know that date you ...
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What does clicking on a comment's time stamp do?
Today I noticed that when I mouse over a time stamp for a comment, the default mouse pointer changes to the little hand with the index finger up, indicating that the time stamp can be clicked on. When ...
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What's up with these dates?
I was reviewing some edit dates on a post at PPCG when I noticed something odd:
Why are the dates formatted differently if they are on the same day? Last time I checked, the year was 2017, so why the ...
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Hats can push time stamp to the right in question list
Hats can be positioned in a way that leaves the bounds of a user's image, but apparently this can also affect time stamp positioning when browsing questions.
In this image, a hat is pushing the time ...
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Does Stack Exchange use UTC time to store creation dates of posts and comments? [duplicate]
Does Stack Exchange use UTC time to store when a question, answer or comment is created, or is there any other approach to handle it to display localized time to the user?
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Inappropriate comment timestamps [duplicate]
I observed that the timing of a comment was shown as 9 sec ago and that of my reply to that comment was 26 sec ago. How is this possible? Here is the screenshot:
I felt this was because the ...
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Incorrect answer time on Stack Overflow
How can a person answer a question without entering the community? I don't understand. Maybe the time in picture doesn't mean the answering time.
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Timestamps missing year and time
I've noticed a few posts (and it is only a few—maybe a handful) which are missing the year and time from the timestamp—The year is replaced with \yy and the time is replaced with AM/PM.
The timestamp ...
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The current date format makes it hard to archive and share screenshots
Right now, the year of a post or comment is not shown if the date falls within the current year, only the month and day.
This means that anyone hoping to screenshot a question to share it somewhere ...
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Viewing the exact timestamp of a question on Stack Exchange [duplicate]
Is there any way to view the exact timestamp of a question asked on Stack Exchange? (ideally second precision)
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Localise or internationalise the date shown to moderators on deleted users
When a user is deleted and a moderator visits their profile page (usually by manually navigating to the /users/id path), they see a few details:
User was deleted on <date/time>
User: <name&...
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Chat events starting in the past show as starting in the future
The following screenshot, taken 37 minutes after the start of a chat event, says it all:
The event "Comic Book Recommendations" was scheduled to start 37 minutes before this picture was taken (as ...
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Comment editing by moderators - include a time-stamp
I suggest that comment's time-stamp/number of revisions is updated to reflect moderator's changes.
Motivation:
I had to do a triple-check that I wasn't imagining earlier versions of the comment ...
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Timeline vote summary shows votes for the 24 hours following the timestamp, which is confusing
The new timeline is pretty snazzy. But there's one thing I've noticed that's a bit jarring; the timestamp for vote summaries is always 0:00:00 on a particular day, and the summary covers the rest of ...
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Time bug in badges page
I'm not living in the future (yet), but I just hit rep-cap on my main site for the 50th time and was awarded the epic badge (yay!) - but the badge page seems to think the system awarded me the badge ...
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Show seconds in chat timestamp titles
I just noticed when looking at a message's details, that chat timestamps only show hh:mm:
Could "seconds" be added to that title?
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Can we configure to get all timestamps always in an absolute format
In emails and inbox notifications the relative timestamps were converted to absolute timestamps about a year ago(sic! It was in Oct '14).
These days (Oct '15) I'm often checking review queues. Most ...
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Sorting favorites by newest still shows last activity instead of creation date
When questions are sorted by "active", the timestamps and usernames refer to last activity.
When questions are sorted by "newest", the timestamps and usernames refer to creation.
This makes sense: if ...
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Comment timestamp sequence
In a comment to this recent answer, a user asked for clarification, and I responded. Oddly, my response bears a timestamp exactly five minutes before that of the incipient comment. The user appears to ...
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Do newly-migrated post requires an actual “edit” to show username and time on the Meta.SE main page?
Please do not mark this question as duplicate of Newly-migrated questions lack information in their timestamp on the front page as that question is after finding why the newly-migrated question does ...
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Include original Ask date on active tab
When I'm browsing the active questions, it would be nice to see not only how long ago it was modified, but when it was originally asked. Here's a mock up
EDIT: I like seeing the creation date ...
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How can I change the display of an answer's date to full year?
Currently the time stamps under questions or answers in Stack Exchange are displayed as MMM DD YY (e.g. Oct 09'09) when it's more than one year ago, e.g. in profile page:
Another example from ...
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SE user page last sync time doesn't show UTC time on hover
On the Stack Exchange user page, below the About Me area, is the "Last Sync 2h ago". But when you hover over this doesn't show the UTC time it was synced - which all other times do.
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Five minute answer edit window failed? [duplicate]
(Pardon me if this is a duplicate. I did try to find one but I am apparently not good at navigating Meta.)
On Mathematica I experienced something I don't think I've seen before. I posted an ...
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Change the time stamp on comments to “time last edited”
I would like to see the time that comments were last edited, rather than the time they were initially posted.
All too often I see comment threads which don't make any sense, but which would if I knew ...
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Wrong “Asked: x years/months/days ago” calculation [duplicate]
On my question asked around 2 years ago :
Why are nested loops considered bad practice
To the right of the question title it said that the question was asked a year ago. Why is that?
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stackexchange.com portal “Hot Questions” time doesn't have any UTC time stamp
On the front page hot questions, there is no UTC time stamp:
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Search results page still uses inconsistent time abbreviations
This is either a regression or an unnoticed special case of Why do the client and server sides of StackExchange use different abbreviations for time spans? and Inconsistent time format on front pages
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Inconsistent time format on front pages
Normally, the time on the front pages is displayed in "secs", "mins" and "hours". However, if there's activity on a question, and you click the little bar at the top to refresh the list (without ...
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How can a question be protected before it has been asked?
I use the Stack Exchange app and came across this by chance. I think that the time shown in the first photo is the time when the question was uploaded. Is this a bug or am I wrong somewhere?
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Include Day-Of-Week in time-related hover-text
Many places in Stack Exchange include timestamps for events, the time posts were created, commented on, edited, answered, etc.
When you 'hover' over those times, it gives a 'tooltip' indicating the ...
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Why do the client and server sides of StackExchange use different abbreviations for time spans?
When I load a StackExchange site, the questions on the main page show up with timestamps like "answered 5m ago joeuser":
But after a minute ticks by, all the timestamps get recalculated and are ...
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Please use absolute timestamp in email notifications
I don't read my emails 24/7, and today read an email that was sent 2 days ago:
The time stamps were correct in the time when the email was sent, but now they are pretty much useless.
Can you ...
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Timestamps should be less vague
There are some parts of the SE interface which use vague timestamps, always rounded to a day:
On user profiles beside 'member for':
The actual membership time in this case (found in the hover text) ...
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Timestamps in the questions list are odd
Timestamps in Android App v1.0.50 currently don't make sense, and aren't actually conveying the last activity.
Note the timestamps here, considering this is sorted as Active. You can click this for a ...
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Should we see timestamp when an answer was appeared on?
Now (at least at Academia) an answer timestamp is in answered N day(s) ago format.
If there are two similar (correct) replies for a question, and a topic starter wants to mark the oldest as correct ...
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Sorting reputation changes by time should show all reputation changes sorted by time
The primary reason to sort reputation changes by time is to understand the chronology of events. But this purpose is largely defeated by the fact that only the last event is shown for every post:
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Reopened questions get a “modified” time stamp in the questions list
This question just showed up on RPG.SE's front page like this:
... which makes no sense, because the question hasn't been modified since May 25th, and the person who edited it wasn't CatLord anyway:
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