Wasn't here yesterday and noticed...hard to miss...that last replies and system messages are now listed in time...minutes, hours, days rather then by date. Not necessarily a big deal, but just curious as to why.

Yes, I just noticed this too!!! Very cool @dave!!!!Always doing something to keep us on our toes! And improving all along!!!! @dave, You and Trish are the greatest!!!!

It occurred to me recently that a time and date when something happened isn't particularly useful without a frame of reference. So I was always finding myself glancing at my clock whenever I saw a date on ATP. I figured, why not just have the computer do the message for me? So I'm experimenting and so far I sure do like it!

But I'm greedy. I want BOTH!!!

I dont' like it -- sorry

I *much* prefer to see dates or dates/times.

to elaborate... Facebook uses "how long ago," instead of an actual time. I don't like it there, either. It's not that big of a deal for me to know what time it is. My PC has a clock, my phone that sits next to the PC has a clock, and my work PC has a clock. I have my board settings here reflecting my timezone.

It's really not that hard for me to know how recent a posting was, and I totally prefer to see hard data (I guess "3 minutes ago" is, technically, hard data, but it feels subjective to me).

Just my 2 cents. Feel free to ignore it.

Being dyslexic, it's much easier for me to read the words rather that the numbers.
It's easy to clearly see if a thread is active up to the minute.
This is similar to my email telling me that someone sent me a message 2 minutes ago or two days ago.
If this is a democracy I will cast my single vote for 'yes'.

OK... so I just looked at the list of topics in the site talk forum, and it tells me something was posted 12 hours ago. Now I have to do the math ... it's 11am where I am, so 12 hours ago was 11pm. I know I'm repeating myself, but this is really annoying to me.

Dave, could you give us a user preference on this instead of forcing it to be one way or the other?

That's not something that can easily be made into a preference but I will give it serious thought.

Let's live with it for a day or two and see how we feel after that.

go with the majority, of course... but a preference setting would be utterly awesome.

I'm totally neutral on this - either way is fine for me. Time is rather fluid in my life, and it's not real important to me when something was posted.

Thinking about new visitors to this site. They will be able to see how active and recent the threads are. So many times a new member will make their first post on an 'ancient' inactive thread.

It will also give some indication of 'whose online' at the moment.

This 'new' way of posting the time/date may be very helpful to the newbies even it it makes only half of the existing members happy.

greene said:Thinking about new visitors to this site. They will be able to see how active and recent the threads are. So many times a new member will make their first post on an 'ancient' inactive thread.

It will also give some indication of 'whose online' at the moment.

This 'new' way of posting the time/date may be very helpful to the newbies even it it makes only half of the existing members happy.

It has always shown when the last post was made in a thread.

It's not all that important to me, but I'm largely with Mary on this. Probably because I hate Facebook. I'm much better at relating to dates and times than "how long ago."

I'm leaning towards the don't like view too. From past responses, I can pretty much tell what posts I make are gonna get thumbs so I don't look every time I get a system notice. Instead I wait so I can view more then one at a time....presuming there are more then one. When I check and see that one was received 10 mins ago, another 8 mins ago, another 5 mins ago etc. I sorta feel like I'm being yelled at for not getting my homework done on time....silly I'm sure, but that's just me Whatever works best for the majority will work for me.

woofie said: I'm much better at relating to dates and times than "how long ago."

Me too! I have no interest with "how long ago"...

I like the "date" better than the "how long ago", but am willing to give it a couple days to see what others think.

Don't chime in very often on site talk, but have to agree, I find the date/time better than the new "how long ago".

Also I don't see anything wrong with newbies commenting on inactive threads...sometimes the best conversations are when a newbie( or any member) questions or adds comments/information to the previous posts. Would not want a time stamp to give the impression to newbies or anyone that an inactive thread shouldn't be used...
Just my thoughts...

I had not even noticed! So obviously I have no opinion .

Interesting...