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by mvdtnz 983 days ago
If the user needs to know the details of your "time display library" to disambiguate "last week" then you've already lost. It's bad UX. Stop doing it.
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mynameisvlad 983 days ago
But… users don’t. Literally no library out there does what the parent commenter claims they could do. They all use sensible cutovers for relative dates.
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mvdtnz 983 days ago
The point is that if a user sees "last week" it's ambiguous. They DON'T KNOW that your libraries don't behave that way. All they see is "last week". Are you really not getting this?
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