[GRANTED] Tweak: Show Age Limit

[TheQwerty]

You mean it does not work?

It works! I was only pointing out that it's missing a comment in the INI file, so it is not only an undocumented tweak but also a tweak in hiding.

All better - thank you for marking it as such!

[Marco]

I use the tweak AgeDecimalPlaces=-1 from time to time and I'm very pleased!
As far as I can see, you use the following pairs to express time: mins+secs, hrs+mins, days+hrs, yrs+days. Can I suggest to split the last pair in something like months+days and yrs+months, or even wks+days, months+wks, yrs+months? The rationale behind this is that brain maps time in logarithmic fashion ( http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/15480 ... 20line.pdf ), and the on screen format should follow accordingly by picking the two larger units possible.

[admin]

Weeks would be okay, but months is difficult since they are different in length.

[Marco]

Do you use your own custom code or VB6 functions to calculate date differences?

[admin]

Own code.

[LittleBiG]

Bug: when a file is fresh, age can be negative number:

[admin]

XY just reports the facts. In this case the app that created the file has set a (very slightly) wrong date.

OTOH I'm surprised that you see msecs. Did you tick Show Milliseconds?

[admin]

OK, I could repro it...

[LittleBiG]

It shows this now:

AgeDecimalPlaces = -1
0 secs (I would prefer 0 sec)
Sometimes 1 sec, sometimes 1 secs (I would prefer always 1 sec)
2 secs
3 secs

AgeDecimalPlaces = -2
0 secs (I would prefer 0s)
1 sec (I would prefer 1s)
2s
3s

[Marco]

AgeDecimalPlaces = -1
0 secs (I would prefer 0 sec)

0 secs is correct - check http://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/ ... or-seconds

[admin]

Yes, 0 secs is correct.

But the other little glitches....well, it's a long way to perfection...

[RalphM]

I would actually prefer a more flexible approach to "Show maximum age in hours" where it is showing the age only if {the date part = today}.
So I get the age for everything of today and the proper dates for everything older.

[admin]

Yes, I share your desire.It will come...

[RalphM]

Thanks in advance then...