"ago" times on buildfarm status page

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: "ago" times on buildfarm status page
Date: 2019-08-21 07:40:23
Message-ID: 970e6d4f-687c-3119-65cd-0047c93f09c5@2ndquadrant.com
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I find the time displays like

01:03 ago

on the buildfarm status page unhelpful.

First, I can never tell whether this is hours-minutes or minutes-seconds
-- there is probably a less ambiguous format available.

But more importantly, the page doesn't say when it was generated, so a
relative time like this is meaningless. The page might have most
recently reloaded last night. That means when I look at the page, I
*always* have to reload it first to make sense of the times.

I notice that the page source actually includes absolute times that are
then converted to relative using some JavaScript. Could we perhaps just
turn that off? Or preferably convert to local time. I can much easier
make sense of an absolute local time: I can compare that to the clock in
the corner of the screen, and I can compare that, say, to a commit
timestamp.

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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services

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