Date & Time: Show the date and time (e.g. "24 Mar 2019 21:34")
Date Only: Show the date only (e.g. "24 Mar 2019")
ISO Date & Time: Show the ISO date and time (e.g. "2019-03-24 21:34")
ISO Date Only: Show the ISO date only (e.g. "2019-03-24")
Relative: Show relative times (e.g. "5 minutes ago")
I prefer to have the month before the date in long-format dates: "Mar 24, 2019" — but I need to have the day of the week: "Sun, Mar 24, 2019". Seeing that a commit was from a Monday morning — or late on a Friday afternoon — often provides a clue to treat it with extra suspicion…
(I also like commas to break the date up, as you can see :)
Rather than continually increasing the size of the date/time format menu to accommodate everyone's favourite format, I'd suggest keeping the current presets and adding an extra "Custom" option that allows people to add their own date/time format string.
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In an ideal world, VS Code would have a global setting for the user's preferred date/time formats, and then all extensions could use that rather than having to be configured individually. I'm guessing there's no such thing at the moment, though…
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The current options for date format are
I prefer to have the month before the date in long-format dates: "Mar 24, 2019" — but I need to have the day of the week: "Sun, Mar 24, 2019". Seeing that a commit was from a Monday morning — or late on a Friday afternoon — often provides a clue to treat it with extra suspicion…
(I also like commas to break the date up, as you can see :)
Rather than continually increasing the size of the date/time format menu to accommodate everyone's favourite format, I'd suggest keeping the current presets and adding an extra "Custom" option that allows people to add their own date/time format string.
Additional context (optional)
In an ideal world, VS Code would have a global setting for the user's preferred date/time formats, and then all extensions could use that rather than having to be configured individually. I'm guessing there's no such thing at the moment, though…