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On 10/19/24 06:39, Nux Vomica wrote:
> The trend in idiot software, which certainly includes Microsoft
> Winblows, is to report the date and time as an elapsed interval
> using common words rather than just showing the numerical date/time.
> 
> Example:
> 
> On my GNU/Linux machine, the "Date" column in Pan shows "Fri 3:10 PM"
> as the time that the post was made.
> 
> But if we look at the web archive "https://comp.os.linux.advocacy.narkive.com/"
> we will see "4 days ago" or "about an hour ago" or "last week."
> 
> What the friggin' fuck?
> 
> This is now the trend in all software that is made for idiots.
> 
> Most of the software on Microslop Winblows does exactly this.
> 
> Give me a fucking break, assholes.  I want to see the actual numerical
> date and time.  My fucking brain can work out the interval.
> 
> Fortunately, GNU/Linux software is made for technically sophisticated
> users and only the numerical date/time is reported.  (I am not sure
> about that GNOME or KDE crap because I don't use either.)
> 
> Show the fucking date and time!  Idiots!

Completely agree

I think there are at least three issues hidden in the larger but rampant 
disease.

1
A lot of click-bait crap sources want to minimize the audiences' ability 
to favor i.e. filter for more recent material.

2
Catering to otherwise acceptable needs to show relative ages and such 
other options is no justification to omit what must always be included, 
a correct and mandatory full date.

3
Some lobotomized half-lives still imagine that being traditional and 
encrusted in since for ever brain-dead usage makes acceptable any 
illogical format that does not have the month number or name between the 
day and the year.