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by munk-a 2580 days ago
It'd still be nice to not have this tied to hover, relative dates are more useful to get a gist of how long you've got - those absolute dates are usually what you need to sell it to management.
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I started with absolute dates, but my primary use-case is “How much time do I have?”, for which relative dates work better.

I’ll see if I can do better.

It can be done as

   1 year 7 days (2020-06-03)
or

   2020-06-03 (1 year 7 days)
If/when you do absolute days, don’t use US format :) (I don’t know hiw it is right now, can’t hiver on mobile)
Or write out months to make clear which format it is (03 June 2020). That way it's clear for everyone which format was used
It is YYYY-MM-DD
The best and the only true format :)