@Harry Skywalker said:

Anyone who post anything since a week ago or less should have the dates as minutes, hours and days, and not with the full date. That's what's happening now.

Why? To me it seems to make more sense to have an exact, permanent date/time stamp, the way it is now, that doesn't ever need to be updated. It fits nicely after your name, and it is easy to see where it fits in temporally between the previous and next post.

Harry, each post indicates date and time of posting. As PT mentioned, that's a permanent date/time stamp - the standard norm for any type posting activity on most sites, I believe. When I see a posting date, if it's from within the week, the date's close enough to now to be evident how many days ago it was via knowing what the current day's date is. For example a post of 6/14 was five days ago, etc. The only time hour of posting is something I find of interest to know how long ago it was is if it was within recent hours - within less than 24 (particularly if within 12 or less). Same like date and time stamps on e-mails, text messages, digital pictures, Facebook postings, etc. Likewise the IMDb message boards were the same. It's the system pretty much everything is on and that everyone's become used to.

@pt100 said:

@Harry Skywalker said:

Anyone who post anything since a week ago or less should have the dates as minutes, hours and days, and not with the full date. That's what's happening now.

Why? To me it seems to make more sense to have an exact, permanent date/time stamp, the way it is now, that doesn't ever need to be updated. It fits nicely after your name, and it is easy to see where it fits in temporally between the previous and next post.

No, because it's way easier to understand how long has someone replied to that therad or how old that thread is.

Many people even forget what is the current day they are in, so obviously having only dates (which are way longer as well than just days, hours ) is more confusing.

And are you guys forgetting that the hours and days do depend on the COUNTRY of the members? So having only dates makes no sense.

@genplant29 said:

Harry, each post indicates date and time of posting. As PT mentioned, that's a permanent date/time stamp - the standard norm for any type posting activity on most sites, I believe. When I see a posting date, if it's from within the week, the date's close enough to now to be evident how many days ago it was via knowing what the current day's date is. For example a post of 6/14 was five days ago, etc. The only time hour of posting is something I find of interest to know how long ago it was is if it was within recent hours - within less than 24 (particularly if within 12 or less). Same like date and time stamps on e-mails, text messages, digital pictures, Facebook postings, etc. Likewise the IMDb message boards were the same. It's the system pretty much everything is on and that everyone's become used to.

Most sites do not do this and on IMDB it was not like this.

Until comments reached 1 week everything appeared as "6 days" or "5 hours" or "4 minutes".

It's way easier like what I'm referring to.

In this current form it's more confusing. Many times people don't even know or forget what current day is, and having the full date is longer and visually worse.

And are you guys forgetting that the hours and days do depend on the COUNTRY of the members? So having only dates makes no sense.

Whenever someone in, say, the UK or Australia newly posts a comment and it shows up for me to see immediately, on my end it shows the time stamp that's for my time zone (Eastern USA), so still is a relevant time stamp to my own local experience, not whatever time it currently is in the UK or Australia.

@genplant29 said:

Whenever someone in, say, the UK or Australia newly posts a comment and it shows up for me to see immediately, on my end it shows the time stamp that's for my time zone (Eastern USA), so still is a relevant time stamp to my own local experience, not whatever time it currently is in the UK or Australia.

Isn't the time stamp from just TMDB itself?

Still it's not as good as having days, hours and minutes like IMDB had.

Every new posting that anyone does, while I'm still actively typing within a thread, whenever their new comment appears and I see the red bell symbol come on, their new comment shows their new post's time stamp adjusted to my own time zone. For example, if you happen to see this new comment within minutes of me posting it at 9:58a.m. US Eastern time, it should show stamped as being within minutes of whatever your current time is, in the event you're in some other time zone.

PS: Within this thread, I show your most recent comment, above, as having a time stamp of 9:19a.m. So that was roughly forty minutes ago.

That's good but still not enough.

It makes everything way more confusing. Putting days, hours, minutes and seconds is way better and way more intuitive.

@Harry Skywalker said:

That's good but still not enough.

It makes everything way more confusing. Putting days, hours, minutes and seconds is way better and way more intuitive.

This is getting tiresome. Use a calendar and do some simple arithmetic if you want to know how old something is, just as you would do for something that is more than a week old.

@SixtiesHoldout said:

@Harry Skywalker said:

That's good but still not enough.

It makes everything way more confusing. Putting days, hours, minutes and seconds is way better and way more intuitive.

This is getting tiresome. Use a calendar and do some simple arithmetic if you want to know how old something is, just as you would do for something that is more than a week old.

This is your first comment and you are already getting tiresome.

No. Putting days, hours, minutes and seconds is way better.

What arithmetic? Do you even know how to read?

@Harry Skywalker said:

@SixtiesHoldout said:

@Harry Skywalker said:

That's good but still not enough.

It makes everything way more confusing. Putting days, hours, minutes and seconds is way better and way more intuitive.

This is getting tiresome. Use a calendar and do some simple arithmetic if you want to know how old something is, just as you would do for something that is more than a week old.

This is your first comment and you are already getting tiresome.

No. Putting days, hours, minutes and seconds is way better.

What arithmetic? Do you even know how to read?

Maybe you're just easily confused. I'm done wasting my time on you.

@SixtiesHoldout said:

@Harry Skywalker said:

@SixtiesHoldout said:

@Harry Skywalker said:

That's good but still not enough.

It makes everything way more confusing. Putting days, hours, minutes and seconds is way better and way more intuitive.

This is getting tiresome. Use a calendar and do some simple arithmetic if you want to know how old something is, just as you would do for something that is more than a week old.

This is your first comment and you are already getting tiresome.

No. Putting days, hours, minutes and seconds is way better.

What arithmetic? Do you even know how to read?

Maybe you're just easily confused. I'm done wasting my time on you.

Obviously you are the one who gets confused extremely easily, even by the most basic things.

Now get lost and stop wasting my precious time.

Skywalker, good luck w/your crusade. Be sure to let us know how it turns out.

@pt100 said:

Skywalker, good luck w/your crusade. Be sure to let us know how it turns out.

PT 100, good luck with your snowflake crusade. Be sure to let us know how your crying turns out.

É assim mesmo, meu amigo tuga.

@Harry Skywalker said:

PT 100, good luck with your snowflake crusade. Be sure to let us know how your crying turns out.

É assim mesmo, meu amigo tuga.

Skywalker, I don't think name-calling is going to advance your cause. Perhaps it would be slightly more convenient to have the last 24 hours broken down into hours, and the last hour broken down into minutes, on the main discussions page where it lists: the threads, who started the thread and who last replied. Last reply could be broken down there, but I don't think it is necessary to have that next to every recent post in a thread; and I don't think it would need to be done to show how old the entire thread is, the way you suggested. That seems like overkill.

You could also just use notifications to keep you apprised of recent posts. A notification will alert you to the first post that was made after your last previous notification, and you can then easily look at that post and later ones if you want to get up to date quickly. The notification alert tells you how long ago the first new post occurred, which is what you're looking for.