Comment 1 for bug 457298

I think that we should stick with the original idea of displaying the "Date modified" rather than "Time elapsed since modification".
"Date modified" is the standard method of viewing information related to file modification dates in both Nautilus and Windows Explorer. I feel any advantages of displaying "Time elapsed since modification" are outweighed by the disadvantages of creating a different solution from that provided by the file managers.

The original design agreed during the sprint stated the time for all files whose modification date is today and dates for all the others (see attached file).

A possible modification of this design could be to label all files modified today as “Today [time]” and all others “[date] [time]” e.g. Today 11:36 or 11/06/09 9:58. This is more congruous with Nautilus and Windows Explorer while also providing a easy at a glance view of files modified today or files modified previously.