On a call right now, but I really like the example from Gnome that Thomas posted.
On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 2:27 PM, Matthias Bussonnier <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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. -- Brian E. Granger Associate Professor of Physics and Data Science Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo @ellisonbg on Twitter and GitHub [email protected] and [email protected] -- 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/CAH4pYpSxvGoc2i6QFoLtNd8kmm%3DzcaLJU%2BumHa1HCA1CmED5ww%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
