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		mgurlitz on Aug 23, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why you should not be displaying relative dates. One of the author's points is that relative dates discard information. 10:37 and 10:36 are both encoded as "9 hours ago," and therefore you can't map back to absolute dates without potentially losing order.

icebraining on Aug 24, 2012 [–]

That's a matter of implementation, not a specific property of relative dates, though.

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