Stop showing relative dates for very old files

Daniel15 · August 9, 2019, 5:44am

For very old files, Seadrive used to display the timestamp in ISO8601 format (eg. 2005-01-01). The public “shared links” do still display it this way:

However, after upgrading from 6.3.4 to 7.0.4, it’s just showing relative timestamps for everything, which is much less useful:

Additionally, it does not display the full date/time on hover, so there’s no way to get a more granular timestamp than “17 years ago”

Was this an intentional change? Is it possible to restore the old behaviour?

shoeper · August 9, 2019, 4:39pm

Seadrive or Seahub?

Daniel15 · August 9, 2019, 4:57pm

This is in Seahub. I guess it’s a result of the new React-based UI in 7.0.

Daniel15 · August 9, 2019, 5:18pm

Looking at the code, it seems like there’s no way to change it, it always uses relative time…

github.com

haiwen/seahub/blob/82cbbe2d069087677e2db2d6687389be4a8afe46/frontend/src/models/dirent.js#L11


import moment from 'moment';
import { Utils } from '../utils/utils';
import FileTag from './file-tag';


class Dirent {
constructor(json) {
  this.id = json.id || '0000000000000000';
  this.name = json.name;
  this.type = json.type;
  this.mtime = json.mtime;
  this.mtime_relative = moment.unix(json.mtime).fromNow();
  this.permission = json.permission || 'rw';
  this.isSelected = false; // is check or not
  this.starred = json.starred || false;
  if (json.type === 'file') {
    this.size_original = json.size;
    this.size = Utils.bytesToSize(json.size);
    this.is_locked = json.is_locked || false;
    this.lock_time = json.lock_time || '';
    this.lock_owner= json.lock_owner || null;
    this.lock_owner_name= json.lock_owner_name || null;

github.com

haiwen/seahub/blob/1891e4a6f52bbdf251dab1e2aa4d853311342023/frontend/src/components/dirent-list-view/dirent-list-item.js#L648


          })}
        </div>
        <UncontrolledTooltip target={`tag-list-title-${toolTipID}`} placement="bottom">
          {tagTitle}
        </UncontrolledTooltip>
      </Fragment>
    )} 
  </td>
  <td className="operation">{this.renderItemOperation()}</td>
  <td className="file-size">{dirent.size && dirent.size}</td>
  <td className="last-update">{dirent.mtime_relative}</td>
</tr>
{this.state.isMoveDialogShow &&
  <ModalPortal>
    <MoveDirentDialog
      path={this.props.path}
      repoID={this.props.repoID}
      dirent={this.props.dirent}
      isMutipleOperation={this.state.isMutipleOperation}
      onItemMove={this.props.onItemMove}
      onCancelMove={this.onItemMoveToggle}

I’m not sure what logic the old version used to determine to show relative time vs full timestamp, but it’s probably worth porting the same logic across.

rdb · August 26, 2019, 7:34am

Can you please check: This problem should be solved in Seafile 7.0.8.

If yes, please mark this post as “solved”

Daniel15 · August 26, 2019, 10:40pm

I don’t see 7.0.8 on the download page at https://www.seafile.com/en/download/, only 7.0.4 (which is what I’m already using). Is 7.0.8 only a Pro release? I’m on the open source version.

rdb · August 27, 2019, 7:01am

Didn’t know you are on CE. Well, I suppose you will see the absolute dates in 7.0.5 CE then.

Daniel15 · October 11, 2019, 5:12am

I just updated to 7.0.5 and don’t see this change. Is it not in CE yet?

rdb · October 11, 2019, 7:42am

Hi Daniel15,
I just checked again - in CE and PE. The result is a bit surprising: Absolute dates are shown in both editions on the library level (see below). Absolute dates are not available on the folder/file level.