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"Last <day>" in condensed dates is unclear in English
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From Dolphin:

Which Wednesday is it? The Wednesday from this week, or the one before?

This phraseology is inherently ambiguous in English and we might be better served by using a different style:

Today: "Today"
Testerday: "Yesterday"
The day before yesterday: "Two days ago"
The day before that: "Three days ago"
...etc. By the time you'd get to "Seven days ago", it would say, "Last Week". IIRC this is how macOS handles it and it's clearer than "Last <day>" which is ambiguous regarding whether that day is from the current week or the one before it.

Thoughts?

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D25878 / R244:9ab008f6b583: Use clearer relative dates
ngraham created this task.Dec 10 2019, 5:17 PM
davidedmundson added a subscriber: davidedmundson.Dec 10 2019, 5:53 PM

Relavant code is KFormat::formatRelativeDate

It does the today/yesterday thing.

When you get to 7 days you don't want to say last week, but "23rd March 2019", the current state. Anything else loses information.

ndavis added a subscriber: ndavis.Dec 10 2019, 6:03 PM

I agree, I hate this kind of ambiguous language.

In T12349#213411, @davidedmundson wrote:

When you get to 7 days you don't want to say last week, but "23rd March 2019", the current state. Anything else loses information.

I also agree with this.

ngraham added a comment.Dec 10 2019, 8:30 PM

+1, that's fine with me too.

heisenbug added a subscriber: heisenbug.Dec 19 2019, 10:23 AM

Do we need to make changes in code to remove this ambiguity? I want to start working with KDE softwares.

ngraham added a comment.Dec 19 2019, 2:36 PM

I already submitted a patch: https://phabricator.kde.org/D25878

Someone just needs to review it.

heisenbug added a comment.Dec 19 2019, 3:20 PM

oh ok, I will start with some other issue then.