Display start and last updated timestamp on system status page #3788
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@Rosencrantz I’ve pushed a small update. When testing this with a few larger datasets, I found that the relative times would add a lot of noise. Specifically:
Instead, I’m now displaying just the absolute time (if the date is today) or otherwise the date and time:
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This can be merged as soon as alephdata/servicelayer#190 is released |
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Nioce update. I approve! |
With relative times, when looking at a full status page, there will be a lot of numbers that are constantly updated. For example, even if "last updated" hasn’t changed, how it is rendered will change over time (from "last updated now" to "last updated 5 seconds ago" etc.) In addition, the different lengths of the rendered strings can cause layout shifts/line breaks. This makes it more difficult to track a specific row and to identify values that have actually changed. Instead, I’m now displaying the absolute time (if the day is today) or the absolute date and time. This leads to a slightly less cluttered and noisy UI.
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This exposes the two timestamps (that are already returned per collection by the status API) in the UI. Times are relative (for example "45 seconds ago"), but hovering over them displays the full date/time (for example "Fri, Jun 28, 2024, 5:05 PM").
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