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When was '2 weeks ago' and did it come before or after '2 weeks ago'? [ycombinator.com]:

Why are timestamps increasingly being replaced by vaguely worded junk?

This has been happening for a long time, but today Github told me that when filtering issues based on creation time, "Date formatting must follow the ISO8601 standard". This is the hill they die on, I guess... Except, the reason I was looking up the syntax for this in the first place was because the creation times are displayed in such a useless manner.

I don't know, it just seems like for anything older than a day it's easier to think about when things happened, not how long ago something happened. And then the resolution degrades to useless levels for anything older than 'today' anyway.

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