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Depends on the application and your personal preference. It's way "faster" for me to see a HN comment was posted "1 hour ago" than it is for me to see the absolute time string and do the math myself. Further, I don't care about the exact time a HN comment was made. I care about roughly how long ago it was posted so I know if the conversation is still going.

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But if exact dates/time is shown you have the possibility to mentally subtract one hour from what the time is, and look for that.

With 1 hour/week/month/year you cannot go the other way, it is too vague.

But web pages and apps should provide a quick and easy way of changing between the too formats.

yes, that's exactly what I said here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41039675

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