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Comments use two different date formats, neither of which are pretty #79

Open David-Rushton opened 4 years ago

David-Rushton commented 4 years ago

Comments loaded from the database (top) are formatted differently to those entered via the site (bottom).

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The bottom format is easier to read, although probably contains too much detail. Do users care about the exact second a comment was posted?

There is a convention to label recent comments by time elapsed (posted an hour ago, posted yesterday), with dates only after some period of time has passed. Consider this approach.