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Bug 564277 - Use short date formats in List views
Use short date formats in List views
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 346337
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Views: List View
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-12-12 16:54 UTC by Behnam Esfahbod
Modified: 2009-10-06 17:06 UTC
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Description Behnam Esfahbod 2008-12-12 16:54:21 UTC 
Having a long (full) "Date Modified" field (even longer than the "Name" field in a 850x650 pixels window!) is really bad.  Using short date formats makes much more sense in these cases.

In example:
"Tue 12 Dec 2008 12:31:12 AM IRST" => "12:31 AM"
"Tue 11 Dec 2008 12:31:12 AM IRST" => "Thu, 11" or "Yesterday"
"Tue 10 Dec 2008 12:31:12 AM IRST" => "Wed, 10"
"Tue 10 Nov 2008 12:31:12 AM IRST" => "10 Nov"
"Tue 10 Dec 2007 12:31:12 AM IRST" => "Dec 2008"

And user can always find the complete date string in the Properties window.
Comment 1 Behnam Esfahbod 2008-12-13 15:09:07 UTC 
I should note that this short format is shorter than all three available formats Nautilus supports, and yet doesn't hide the important info from user.
Comment 2 A. Walton 2009-10-06 17:06:06 UTC 
Could benefit from Christian Hergert's GDateTime work if we can get it in. (Perhaps something like a g_format_date_time_for_display() which would give one of these humanized date-times).

Same request is in #346337, so we'll call this a duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 346337 ***