Updated and unified timestamp conventions
Time ago timestamps are displayed inconsistently throughout the web and mobile applications.
Please see below a clarification of how these dates should be displayed across mobile and web.
Dates can be displayed in one of two contexts:
- Feed view. Utilise time ago values in the following short format.
-
8s
= '8 seconds ago' -
30m
= '30 mins ago' -
22h
= '22 hours ago' -
Jun 14
= 'Anything that 24 hours or older. Do not display the year, where it is the current year' -
Dec 25 2020
= 'Date from the previous calendar year'
- Post context: When displaying a post outside of a feed, the full date/time should be displayed.
-
Jan 14 2021 · 1:42 am
/14 Jan 2021 · 17:01
.
(Ideally the date time should be localised accordingly). e.g. FR -> le 5 avril · 17:01
, DE -> 15. Juni 2021 · 15:22
etc...
Edited by Michael Bradley