Date and time should be displayed rather than an approximation such as "last week" or "today"

[jlswaugh]

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Oftentimes, the exact date and time that a commit is made is important. The exact date and time should be specified, rather than a relatively unhelpful approximation such as "last week" or "today".

[hafiz-muhammad]

If you view the commit details you can view the exact time and date of the commit by adding .patch at the end of the URL.

Example: https://github.com/OWNER/REPOSITORY/commit/COMMIT_ID.patch

[RobertKrawitz]

That requires a lot of work for something really vital. Relative or "friendly" (i. e. colloquial) dates simply aren't useful for this purpose (personally, I'd prefer absolute dates for everything, categorically).

There's a lot of other discussion of this topic that really needs to be addressed; see e. g. https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/5972