Today I have been doing some minor hacking on my blog.
I changed the visible timestamp on the rants from absolute to
relative; the absolute timestamp is now a title attribute
on the timestamp span (i.e. the asolute timestamp is shown
as a tooltip, if you hover your mouse over the relative timestamp). In
the same move I went from displaying the absolute timestamps in CET to GMT. This goes for all pages but the
archive, where absolute timestamps still rule supreme.
The code to calculate
and format the relative timestamps is naturally
available in my favourite computer dialect
(provided you don’t start foaming around the mouth when I mention the
GPL (speaking of which, have
I missed all the obvious jokes about the General Pubic License
(sic) being viral, or are they just less obvious than I think?!)).