On many places in the platform (versions, publishing, conflict resolution, …) date/time for versions is displayed as “xx minutes ago”, “… days ago” and so on:
While this makes sense for minutes and seconds, maybe sometimes hours, it is very hard to work with when it is xx days or months ago. Yes it gives a very good indication but when I am looking if a certain model version has been uploaded or not, I need an exact date/time. Because “7 days ago” as in the example could be somewhere on 19/06/2026 (at the time of writing), but I received the IFC at 12:40 on the 19th.
Now it appears that in this particular case 7 days means that it was uploaded into Qonic on 20/06/2026 meaning it is (very likely at least) the correct latest version.
I guess it doesn’t hurt to show both the exact date/time and the current ‘days ago’ to combine the advantages of both.
The date is formatted as it is to keep it legible on a high level; if you need to know the specific time of a certain commit you can always hover your cursor over the date indicator to get the precise time stamp:
Does it also work this way in the conflict resolution? At current I can’t check.
My main concern with something like this: the user has to know this ‘little trick’. It is very similar with the ‘copy’ command, holding shift while doing a translation.
If the software becomes full of this kind of small things (not necessarily undocumented, but hard to find out by yourself) it might in time affect the user experience.
This is not much different from classic tools, but in my view it is a bit contrary to the general UI/UX of Qonic that is very user-friendly and doesn’t require much training to get started and figure it out by yourself. But honestly, if I have to ask about how to do something in order to find out … that means none of my colleagues will ever know unless I tell them (and they’ll forget it even when I do ).
Currently there’s no option to set the date formatting, but it’s a good point. We will at the very least make sure consistent formatting is used across the dashboard and client, and on the longer term make it either customizable or region-specific.
I’d prefer it to be customizable by user, rather than region-specific. To give an example, I use a Qwerty keyboard while the region-specific default would be Azerty for Belgium. It will be the same for many (probably more advanced) users related to data notation, number notation (‘.’ or ‘,’), currency (though that one is project related more than user/company), …
Yes, a new generation annoyance, yesterday when, 4 days ago when and what, IDK what date was 4 days ago without having to think what todays date is, then count backward.
Super painful when, it’s showing two weeks ago, just show the full date and time please for goodness sake.
This is perfect! (Apart maybe from the region formatting, but I can live with that for now)
Not sure if/when this was changed? I seem to remember that previous time I used the conflict resolution it still said “… days ago”.
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