How to make post timestamps show seconds? - support

Looked around for this but couldn’t find anything – what would be the simplest way to show the time a post was made down to the second in the share popup?

Each post already has the exact timestamp available in the HTML, so this information is certainly present, but I’m not 100% sure what the best way to update this text (which, sadly, seems to be hardcoded, not a formatted date) to add on the seconds would be. I’m mostly used to CSS and not so much JavaScript (I can read and understand it well enough, but am not well-versed enough to know the “proper” way to even begin to attempt solving this [most of my coding experience is embedded]), so I’m really struggling to figure out where to even start approaching this within the context of what could be easily added in a theme or similar lightweight add-on.

Don

March 28, 2024, 9:15pm

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Hello

This uses the following formats.

github.com

discourse/discourse/blob/fa92f8bc94deb5969caf6af6943b0cb3c6725fe5/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/app/lib/formatter.js#L41-L51


      
          export function longDateNoYear(dt) {
            if (!dt) {
              return;
            }
          
          
  if (new Date().getFullYear() !== dt.getFullYear()) {
              return moment(dt).format(I18n.t("dates.long_date_with_year"));
            } else {
              return moment(dt).format(I18n.t("dates.long_date_without_year"));
            }
          }

You can change it in /admin/customize/site_texts

Search these two strings.

dates.long_date_with_year
dates.long_date_without_year

dates.long_date_with_year

Default
MMM D, YYYY LT

Change it to
MMM D, YYYY LTS

dates.long_date_without_year

Default
MMM D, LT

Change it to
MMM D, LTS

Note: This will change everywhere on your site where this date format used.

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To complete the nice Don’s answer, if you want only on this share-topic modal, you can try this component:

Settings:

Result:

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