On 28 February 2018 at 13:42, Brian Granger <[email protected]> wrote:
> Matthias, helpful thoughts! I think your example points to a third > question a user might be trying to answer: > > 3) "How are the last modified times of these notebooks differ?" > > I fully agree that seeing a set of notebooks with a time of "X Y ago" > is not helpful tin answering that question. However, I don't think the > usability issues are unique to "long times" ago. For example, it would > be just as painful to see a few notebooks that say "5 minutes ago" as > "5 month ago" if I am trying to answer this third question. > Yes, except ISO 8601 does not "loose granularity" when time passes. I'm going to assume that if we format to iso, we'll add HH:MM but not SS, so having 5 notebooks "at 14:16" or 5 notebooks "5 minutes ago" is the same. You can't differentiate regardless of moment.js vs iso. If the 5 notebooks are from 5 different days in Jan, with ISO I can still distinguish, with moment I can't. So I believe issues are exacerbated with old files. in other words, the issue with moment.js "Smart" format is that 2 notebooks differentiable today, will not be tomorrow. The buckets get larger too fast. I like Thomas' example of Gnome, which does (seem to) strike a nice balance. -- M -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Project Jupyter" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jupyter/CANJQusVbXHaQX7xozAeBfxQAkPDrjEZxiFKqGgrWOK1FCtMsiw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
