Feature Proposal: WebChanges showing topic age instead of date

Motivation

When scanning over recently updated topics in WebChanges it is useful to assess how old the changes are. For example, I know that the last time I checked was 6 hours ago. Instead of subtracting date and time, it is easier to see the topic age.

I have done this here on TWiki.org in WebChangesForAllWebs. Age is shown in minutes, hours, days, month or year.

Description and Documentation

Change WebChanges to show the time since last topic update. For example, instead of 2013-09-10 21:46 show 19 hours ago.

Examples

Impact

Implementation

-- Contributors: Peter Thoeny - 2013-09-12

Discussion

This feature is accepted by JerusalemReleaseMeeting2013x09x12.

-- Peter Thoeny - 2013-09-12

This is now in SVN trunk.

-- Peter Thoeny - 2013-09-14

We are in the Pacific Time Zone. When I make a change, the go to WebChanges, the header correctly reflects my current time and says (-0800). But, all of the ages are off by those eight hours. In other words, changes made a few minutes ago show up as eight hours old. Is there something else I need to set?

Steve Cooper - 2013-11-14

-- Steve Cooper - 2013-11-15

Steve, please ask support questions in the Support web, stating TWiki version and other details.

-- Peter Thoeny - 2013-11-15

Can this behavior be made configurable? I rather preferred seeing the date/time of the last revision, rather than having the age calculated for me.

-- Barry Lake - 2013-11-15

Barry, you can submit a new feature request. TWiki is open source software, it increases the odds of implementation if you either provide a patch or sponsor the work.

-- Peter Thoeny - 2013-11-15