in reply to [solved] No Bug in Chatterbox (Displaying the hour in the time of a message)

This is by design, because that way we don't need to add the correct hour to display. Or at least I think that's the reason why the hour is left out when displaying the posting-time.

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Re^2: Bug in Chatterbox? ( :)
by tye (Sage) on Feb 05, 2009 at 14:37 UTC

    Putting the hour in would mean that we couldn't cache the HTML because it would need to be different for each user. It also takes up more space. And the hour doesn't matter in a place that only shows, at most, 500 seconds of chatter. The leading colon is also intentional as a visual cue that you are being shown minutes:seconds not hour:minutes.

    - tye        

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