More options for age display

[Jaspotn0612]

It seems to me that there are only two options for the last modification age display either 'x days x hours' or 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS'

Is it possible to have the option to display the age as a relative time (rounded up or down, doesn't really matter which) so it will say one of 'x days', 'x weeks', 'x months' or 'x years'

[ams-tschoening]

Guten Tag Jaspotn0612, am Mittwoch, 11. November 2020 um 04:56 schrieben Sie:

Is it possible to have the option to display the age as a relative time (rounded up or down, doesn't really matter which) so it will say one of 'x days', 'x weeks', 'x months' or 'x years'

No, the format is hard-coded wherever it is used. Search the code for "datetimeFormatDuration" to see that, and while it accepts some options, callers simply hard-code things as necessary. There's no option e.g. in the config to influence how to show the age everywhere or alike.

include/utils.php datetimeFormatDuration

Though, looking at the search results there seems to only be two different formats used:

datetimeFormatDuration([...]); datetimeFormatDuration([...], true, true);

Multiple choices: Change the implementation of relative age to ALWAYS round up to the next higher quantity like weeks, years etc. Or add some new concepts describing the place WHERE an age is needed and different formats of POSSIBLE ages. Formats might be something like "absolute", "timestamp", "relativeDaysOnly", "relativeLargestQuantity" or something like that. Callers would then call some function telling about the place they need th duration for, e.g. "fileDetails", "diff", "compare" etc., that function checks which formnat to use using the config and the necessary format is calculated.

datetimeFormatDuration($where) $config->setDateTimeFormat($where, $format)

Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Thorsten Schöning

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