Display date and time instead of timespan

Continua CI Discussion
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Hi,

could you please change the way you display the value “started” to a date and time instead of a time span like “2 weeks ago” or display both formats?. The only way we are able to find out exactly when a specific build was started is the timestamp of the files on the artifacts page.

Regards

Kay Zumbusch

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I had the same issue and came up with this. I defined a CI server variable called VersionFormat as %Major%.%Minor%.$Build.BuildNumber$ - $Server.Now.Format(“MM/dd”)$ - $Server.Now.Format(“HH:mm”)$ then defined on the Details tab within the configurations the version format string as %VersionFormat%. So on the main CI Dashboard displays like “15.01 - 01/14 - 10:36”. This shows your date and time the build ran. Maybe this will work for you as a work around. Enjoy.

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Hi,

Generally, where we show a humanised date and time we include the actual date and time in a tooltip when you hover over it:

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Hi Dave,

is it possible to add this tooltip also for durations?
I often have durations like “4 minutes” and sometimes I wanted to know exactly how much time it took.

Regards,
Jens

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Hi Jens,

Yes, we have now added tooltips to durations on the build summary page. This will be in the next version. We'll also look schedule a task to look into doing this for other views where necessary.