View Poll Results: Date or elapsed time?
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Date.
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Elapsed time.
46 66.67%
Thread: Time elapsed.
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7th September 2006, 07:44 AM #1Retired
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Time elapsed.
Do you want the elapsed time since last post put in as the Date or would you like it as hours or days elapsed?
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7th September 2006, 09:29 AM #2
Maybe a combination. For short durations less than a day perhaps the number of minutes, hours but for longer periods the date.
But then again I don't always know what day it is!- Wood Borer
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7th September 2006, 10:02 AM #3
Time and Date. If you put the time and date and I want to know how long ago it was (why??) then it's not that hard to work out. Personally have never seen the advantage of putting "x minutes/hours/days ago".
"I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to."
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7th September 2006, 11:33 AM #4
I would much rather have it as "46 minutes ago" rather than "7th sep 2006, 07:52 AM".
Much easier to work out, at a quick glance. Why not just have both. That would save problems all round.
Joash
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7th September 2006, 11:36 AM #5Much easier to work out
If someone can explain the benefit, maybe I'll get it. At the moment, it just looks to me like a feature for people who can't tell the time..."I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to."
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7th September 2006, 01:26 PM #6
My monitor is about 1.5 metres away, and while my eyes are good, it's still easier to read '15 minutes ago' than it is to read '7th Sep 2006, 09:36 AM'.
I could move closer to the monitor, I could get a bigger monitor, I could enlarge the font size, I could do any number of things.
Doesn't change the fact that the old (as above) was only 12 characters, including two quickly recognised words, where the 'new' is 16 chracters, with 3 numbers, 2 abbreviations and one thing you hang off numbers to make em sound right.
The old is faster and easier to read for me, and I have been able to read and tell time since I was about 3 years old so it's not like I have trouble comprehending either way.
I'd like it the old way, but I'd like to be able to choose which way I see it even more.
Gotta let the twits see it their way and all.
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7th September 2006, 01:28 PM #7.
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7th September 2006, 01:32 PM #8I'd like it the old way
Still haven't explained why you need to know how long ago the post was made... Why oh why oh why? Tell me, go on, I need to know. I might be missing some hitherto undiscovered time/labour/stress saving tip."I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to."
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7th September 2006, 01:33 PM #9
Same with me, the monitor is 1 metre away from me. I have no problem reading the screen, it is just easier to quickly glance at the time above each post, and see it straight away. I have no problem in working it out, it just takes that 3-4 seconds longer. Also, the time on the posts, is around 2 and a half ours different to mine. I have the right time.
BRING BACK THE OLD WAY.
OR put both ways in.
Just my insignificant opinion,
JOASH
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7th September 2006, 01:51 PM #10
I like the old way. With the elapsed time 14 days and 20 days are both 2 weeks ago.
I dont need to really need to tell the difference between something that was posted 10 minutes ago as opposed to 12 minutes ago. As a matter of fact, I dont really care what anyone else posts anyway. You should all stop it.
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7th September 2006, 01:52 PM #11
Do you READ any of these posts?
Why do you need to know how many minutes/hours/days ago the post was made? Why oh why oh why?
BRING BACK THE OLD WAY"I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to."
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7th September 2006, 01:53 PM #12I like the old way"I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to."
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7th September 2006, 02:00 PM #13
The so many minutes ago way
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7th September 2006, 02:03 PM #14
I was talking to Grunt.
Do you know why? Or do you just hate change?"I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to."
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7th September 2006, 02:05 PM #15
Last edited by Groggy; 7th September 2006 at 02:07 PM. Reason: missed a post.
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