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		gshaw on Aug 23, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why you should not be displaying relative dates. This. How can you display a time and mean something if you don't know what timezone the user viewing it is in?

icoloma on Aug 24, 2012 [–]

It gets even worse with DST. is GMT+2 meant to be Spain in summer, or something else?

Relative dates are a blessing where space is a constraint

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