Re: "ago" times on buildfarm status page

On 8/21/19 3:40 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> I find the time displays like
>
> 01:03 ago
>
> on the buildfarm status page unhelpful.
>
> First, I can never tell whether this is hours-minutes or minutes-seconds
> -- there is probably a less ambiguous format available.

This is hours:minutes. days are always explicitly prepended if greater
than 0.

>
> But more importantly, the page doesn't say when it was generated, so a
> relative time like this is meaningless. The page might have most
> recently reloaded last night. That means when I look at the page, I
> *always* have to reload it first to make sense of the times.
>
> I notice that the page source actually includes absolute times that are
> then converted to relative using some JavaScript. Could we perhaps just
> turn that off? Or preferably convert to local time. I can much easier
> make sense of an absolute local time: I can compare that to the clock in
> the corner of the screen, and I can compare that, say, to a commit
> timestamp.
>

Maybe.

TBH the whole buildfarm UI is rather dated and clunky. But it needs work
from a web monkey, which I am really not.

cheers

andrew

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