Only show relative date

Simp_fally · June 30, 2018, 6:00am

Have an option so that all dates are of the form “x days ago” like “2 days ago”.

It already does so for < 4 days and I’d like to increase that.

Erica · March 29, 2018, 7:26pm

This will be available very soon. Cheers!

Simp_fally · June 25, 2018, 2:32pm

Is it available now?

Erica · June 25, 2018, 2:34pm

Yeah, unfortunately it’s part of a Pro feature called “Custom date format”. You can write “relative” in that field for this effect.

More info on that feature here: https://help.dynalist.io/article/86-customize-date-format

Simp_fally · June 29, 2018, 11:46am

Aw. Still it’s pretty cool that it got implemented. I thought I’d buy the pro if it did but monthly payments actually get expensive for students.
Thank you for your time.

Francisco_Barros · June 30, 2018, 2:13am

Probably yes, but are you aware of this page?
Student discount - Dynalist Help Center

Erica · June 30, 2018, 6:00am

Was about to say that, thanks Francisco!

Dmytro · June 30, 2018, 2:05pm

Can you add another option to this feature. In Pro version allow to select the time limit that is shown in relative terms if default date format is used?

Currently default format is:

[-6d; 6d] - relative presentation (f.e. in 4 days, 21:00)
(; -6d) : (6d; ) - absolute presentation (Wed, July 11th 2018)

It really would be great to add another field in Settings where you can change that “6” value!

Erica · July 8, 2018, 8:47pm

Sure, we’ll consider that, thanks for the suggestion!

Alan · July 13, 2018, 2:26am

Today is still 7/12, so it should not say a day ago!

KC · July 15, 2018, 9:25am

It seems when more than 21 hours it start show “a day ago”. I do hope they have more precise option for relative format, but it is good enough for me as now.

Erica · August 17, 2018, 8:41pm

We use moment.js and that’s why:

https://momentjs.com/docs/#/displaying/fromnow/

“22 ~ 35 hours” is displayed as “a day ago”. I think they are going for the rough idea of timestamps without making it too complicated, like you don’t want to see “one day and three hours ago” either.

Alan · August 18, 2018, 2:34pm

But you are not using moment.js for the default display of dates when those are relative. These two are inconstent. (And Default gets it right.)

Erica · August 19, 2018, 3:08am

But the default doesn’t handle months and years earlier or later good enough. Otherwise we’d need to reinvent moment.js’s wheels.

If the inconsistency bothers you, we can change both to moment.js’s implementation. I think we have better things to do than this though.

Alan · August 19, 2018, 8:33pm

Don’t do that! I abandoned relative because the results were extremely confusing. I’d hate for default to also be confused.