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Edit history contains both relative times and absolute times. Example from https://superuser.com/posts/1926628/revisions (mirror):

revision 4 says "edited 22 hours ago" and revision three says "edited Oct 13 at 22:43"

Proposal: Don't mix up relative time with absolute times in the edit history.

Rationale: It makes it difficult to compare the absolute times with the relative times. E.g. in that case, I was wondering how long it took between the closing event and the last edit before it.

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    While I agree, this is all over the place. Almost anything that displays dates will show relative time for recent timestamps. The only exception I can think of is the timeline where you can toggle the timestamps. I'd be awesome if this was more widely available. Maybe even as a profile setting. Commented Oct 17 at 13:12
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    "I was wondering how long it took between the closing event and the last edit before it." This would, admittedly, be easier in the question's timeline. Like VLAZ mentions, you can toggle the "when" format there to be absolute times and so you can far more easily work out time differences. Commented Oct 17 at 13:22
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    The only real use that I see for the "x y ago" is seeing whether a post or a comment is still within the editing courtesy period/threshold. Apart from that, it is just confusing to mix "ago" with absolute dates/times. I'd love to see it dropped, or made droppable (via settings). Commented Oct 17 at 17:44

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