Re: [PATCH 2/2] --date=relative falls back to "short" format for commits older than a year

From: Marius Storm-Olsen <marius@trolltech.com>
Date: Feb 24, 2009, 06:35 UTC
Message-ID: <49A39519.3030308@trolltech.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090224050400.GC4615@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King said the following on 24.02.2009 06:04:

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> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 09:09:02AM +0100, Marius Storm-Olsen wrote:
>>> Another option would to give higher resolution in number of
>>> years, like "3.5 years" or even "3.1 years".
>> And using shorter names for the units would be a no-go?
>> 
>> "3y 2m ago"    <--
> 
> Personally I think that looks terrible. But I recognize that it is 
> very subjective. The only objective thing I can say is that "m" is
> not a unique prefix of a time unit, due to "minutes". Yes, it is
> obvious if you see the "y" first, but I actually parse the relative
> time backwards in my head and think "2 minutes ago, oh wait, 3
> years, that must be months".

Ok, the standard abbreviation for month is "mo.", so

   "3y 2mo. ago"

then? ;-)

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