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Hover over the date to see the exact day and time.

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In Outlook for Mac if I hover "Yesterday" in the tooltip I get... "Yesterday".

I see now it wasn’t clear, but I was referring to bugzilla. I don’t use Outlook.

Hover? I'm on mobile...

This is kind of an aside, but hover is a perfectly valid UI mechanism, and I intensely dislike the trend of kneecapping the UI just to make it work on a touch screen.

Some things just don't work well if you don't have a mouse. That doesn't mean we should throw them away. It just means that sometimes you need a mouse for real work. There's nothing wrong with that.

To each their own, I absolutely despise anything popping up, ever.

Stuff appearing and disappearing as I move my mouse around angers me, and I get even more annoyed when things pop up if I put my mouse somewhere to park it.

A full blown conniption fit happens if I park my mouse, start to read something, and a popup thing gets in the way. The neighbours know when that happens.

I think the point is more that if a feature requires a mouse to work, maybe that mode should be the optional path so it still works on mobile.

At least on bugzilla, I’m able to tap and hold to get the same effect.

Gitlab shows this relative date. I repeatedly have this issue where I'm trying to look through commits and I have to mouse over every single commit repeatedly while trying to figure out when something was changed in relation to other changes. So I mouse over one, mouse over the next, go back to the previous one, forget what the other one was, mouse over that, then mouse over a fourth and repeat.

Who came up with this insane bullshit?

It'll show me a bunch of commits all made 4 days ago. I have no idea what day that was. Was it Monday? Wednesday? I have logs from the 16th, does Gitlab think that was 4 days ago or 5?

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