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All in the title... Exact dates and time on files needed for accurate searches. Especially in the app.
Rich
Super User II
Super User IIMake all files searchable by Date Modified?
No. Make the Date Modified column show the actual dates and not the relative dates that it currently shows.
Relative date and time stamps are garbage. They shouldn't exist.
Dell_Dropbox
Community Manager
Community ManagerRight, but if we open a folder, click the 3 dot menu, and view file info, we can see the actual date modified timestamp, not a relative date.
So the actual request is to make that particular information searchable?
Making it searchable and changing how it may appear in a column for sorting in folder view are two different requests. So I just want to get super clear on the ask.
- Rich
So the actual request is to make that particular information searchable?
I think the request, and Frank K.1 please correct me if I'm wrong, is to just display the absolute modified date in the search results, instead of a relative date.
Those files that say 4 months? They were modified 8 days short of 5 months. ago. The files showing 5 months? Edited five and half months ago.
Relative dates are not accurate. If I do a search for a set of files that were all edited a couple of months ago but on different days of that month, they all say "2 months ago". That's not helpful. We need to see accurate information.
The All Files list is fine, as least for me, as seen here:
It's the search results where the problem exists. Why have absolute timestamps in All Files but relative timestamps in the search results. Be consistent!
This should be a user preference. We have a setting that controls the date format in terms of the order of MM DD YYYY. There should be a setting that allows us to completely disable relative date and timestamps across the entire site.
The inventor of relative date and timestamps should be forced to ride Disney World's It's a Small World until the end of their relative time span.