Mastodawn

Anton May 15, 2023

Dear developers,
if you're outputting relative timestamps ("4 days ago"), please also include somehow the actual timestamp. The title-attribute in HTML would be a good starting point.
Yours truly,
a frustrated user looking for exact timestamps.

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Bèr Kessels 🐝 🚐 🏄 🌱

@antondollmaier there's even a special HTML tag for this... https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/time

<time>: The (Date) Time element - HTML: HyperText Markup Language | MDN

The <time> HTML element represents a specific period in time. It may include the datetime attribute to translate dates into machine-readable format, allowing for better search engine results or custom features such as reminders.

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