Another trend I've seen is to spell out the full name of the month but then leave out the year. Gee, thanks for making me hover over every single date just to see what it actually is.
I like to make it show the time stamp on hover / tap.
However, for the population of GitHub users, I am certain a significantly higher percentage desire precise timestamps. Maybe even in ISO 8601 / IETF RFC 3339.
Are you claiming that even among GitHub users the percentage desiring "days ago" is overwhelming? Based on what data?
This is exactly what GitHub does (on hover). I'm not sure how they calculate what format to show it in on hover. For me, it's a good balance of getting a feel for the time at a glance while allowing you to see actual time on hover when you need it.
Not inhuman enough. 12-hour time format is way too human, only used in spoken colloquial language outside the US.
Ideally it should be 2022-10-31T12:34Z.
Changes human time displays to inhuman ones on GitHub. For example, a time displayed as `3 days ago`, will be changed to `31 Oct 2022, 5:34 pm IST`.
The advantage of this, is say if you are viewing a page of releases for example, and all releases show `3 days ago`, since they are all off by a few minutes or hours, it can be really frustrating to have to hover over each of them to find out the exact time of each release.
This applies in commits page, releases page, updates pages etc.
Most annoying design antipattern ever implemented.
