Bug 184086

Summary:	Use smart/friendly dates and times e.g. "Today 12:00pm", "Yesterday 5.05pm"
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	monstermunch
Component:	general	Assignee:	Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	finex, jlayt
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	16.12.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	Screenshot without/with "fancy dates" using the patch from https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/112661/

Description monstermunch 2009-02-12 00:30:38 UTC

Version:           1.2 (using 4.2.00 (KDE 4.2.0), Kubuntu packages)
Compiler:          cc
OS:                Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.27-11-generic

It would be good if dolphin could display dates/times in a more friendly manner that is easier to read, such as the way kmail does.

For instance:

- instead of "1.10.2009 11:50" you display "Today 11:50"
- instead of "1.09.2009 12:00" you display "Yesterday 12:00pm"
- instead of "1.08.2009 12:00" you display "Thursday 12:00pm"
- dates like "1.08.2008" would be displayed as is.

I generally only want to find files that were modified recently and remember day names and rarely absolute dates; this way, more recent dates are easier to find (e.g. "I remember saving that file on Saturday or Sunday"). I find the above easier to parse.

Comment 1 FiNeX 2009-02-13 20:26:04 UTC

Do you know about the new grouping feature by data? It could be very useful for your needings.

Comment 2 John Layt 2010-09-16 00:47:57 UTC

Calling KLocale::formatDateTime() with a DateFormat of KLocale::FancyShortDate would do exactly this.  Perhaps a setting option for "Use Fancy Dates"?

Comment 3 Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems) 2012-08-24 16:20:03 UTC

Resetting assignee to default as per bug #305719

Comment 4 Frank Reininghaus 2013-09-12 03:06:58 UTC

Created attachment 82291 [details]
Screenshot without/with "fancy dates" using the patch from https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/112661/

Comment 5 Frank Reininghaus 2013-09-12 03:43:10 UTC

I think that we should not implement this because

(a) The screen shot clearly shows that it looks rather weird. Note that the "time" parts of the date are not aligned to each other. Making the date right-aligned won't hep because then the broken alignment of the weekdays will look strange.

(b) The request did not get any support from other users.

Sorry about that.