Add an option for a detailed time and date format
The default time and date formats in Files are intended to be human friendly and to avoid information overload. This works for most cases and is an appropriate default. However, there are cases where people nee to be able to see a complete date and time for their files. Archives of data where you need to differentiate files based on the modification time are one example.
It would be good to have a user preference to show a more detailed date and time format, for situations such as these. This would affect all the various date and time formats in Files.
The preference itself could go in the general section, and be a switch. It could be called Detailed Date and Time
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The exact format will need to be locale dependent.
Proposed detailed date format
List columns
List columns all use the same format:
2023/01/31 12:00
Properties dialogs
All dates use the same format:
2023/01/31 12:00:00
File conflict dialogs
All dates use the same format:
2023/01/31 12:00:00
Example
If we go with the default time and date format proposed in #2870 (closed), then an example date modified column might look like this:
Current format Default format Detailed format
Wed 8 Mar 2023 2023/03/08 15:48
Wed 8 Mar 2023 2023/03/08 13:32
11:09 Today, 11:09 2023/03/14 11:09
23 Jan 23 Jan 2023 2023/01/23 09:28
6 Jan 2022 6 Jan 2023 2023/01/06 12:38
10 Nov 2022 10 Nov 2022 2022/11/10 14:28
9 Feb 2022 9 Feb 2022 2022/02/09 09:29
26 Apr 2022 26 Apr 2022 2022/04/26 17:05
22 Nov 2022 22 Nov 2022 2022/11/22 16:49
29 Sep 2022 29 Sep 2022 2022/09/29 14:11
9 Jan 2023 9 Jan 2023 2023/01/09 19:45
15:29 Today, 15:29 2023/03/14 15:29