Currently in Dolphin's "Details" View Mode it is possible to select Relative or Absolute Date styles. It would be great if that functionality could be extended to the "Compact" and "Icon" Views, and also to the Info Panel. STEPS TO REPRODUCE N/A OBSERVED RESULT N/A EXPECTED RESULT N/A SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS N/A ADDITIONAL INFORMATION N/A
I agree with Paul. It would be very helpful if the "Absolute Date Style" were available in all view modes and the info panel.
Me also agree with Paul. It would be very useful if the "Absolute Date Style" were available in all view modes and the info panel.
I also agree with Paul and prefer the "Absolute Date Style". Thanks.
Thank god for the "Absolute Dates" option! (or who ever ensured there is that option) I just have to use this occasion for a little rant: I think Relative Dates are absolutely unsuitable for professional working people! For end users Relative Dates might be a nice help in some (not all) situations. But professional users (e.g. system administrators) often need precise and quotable dates! Relative Dates can not be easily quoted. If I write a text document containing "computer says file was changed yesterday" that information will be completely useless if someone reads it a few month later. The reader just might have a chance to figure out what I meant if the text document has a modified date itself and was not modified since the day I quoted "yesterday" from Dolphin. Same goes for relative times like "5 minutes ago". Additionally there's no real good definition for relative dates. Example: Assume it's 08:10:10 AM and Dolphin gives you this: file_a: 3 minutes ago file_b: 2 minutes ago file_c: 2 minutes ago file_d: Just now file_e: Just now file_f: Just now file_g: Just now ---> What times do you expect for these files? Solution, it's this: touch --date=08:07:00 file_a touch --date=08:07:30 file_b touch --date=08:08:00 file_c touch --date=08:08:30 file_d touch --date=08:09:00 file_e touch --date=08:09:30 file_f touch --date=08:10:00 file_g Additionally what "Just now" means can be assessed highly individual. Some people might expect the last 10 minutes to be "Just now", while others might just count the last 1 second. So if users just have one file saying "Just now" they clue if that means something 1 second, 50 seconds or 10 minutes ago. Also there's no way see, that over a minute has passed between file_08-10-00 and file_08-08-30. And Dolphin seems not to update relative dates. So if a file was modified "2 minutes ago" Dolphin will still say that after 10 minutes have passed. On the other hand folder views changing every minute might be irritating too. I'd say: Save the time to implement relative dates/times and delete that extra code! It's a mess which creates a lot more problems than it solves. But as said before, thank you very much for at least having an option to turn on Absolute Dates!
*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***