See “real” commit date in github (hour/day)

Question

Is there a way to see the date of a commit in github, with day/hour precision? Older commits appear in a \"human readable\" format, such as \"2 years ago\" instead of showing th

Answer 1

If you're looking for a way to display the date/time permanently without hovering (e.g. for screenshots), the above Javascript-based solutions do not match the latest Github HTML (see comments). And they did not take into account the fact that the timestamps are auto-updated based on a timer ("X minutes ago" has to change every minute), so they will periodically reappear.

The following script seems to work on Github as of 2020-01-27:

(function() {
    var els = window.document.querySelectorAll("time-ago,relative-time");
    els.forEach(function(el) {
        el.innerHTML = "on " + el.getFormattedTitle(); // original timestamp
        el.disconnectedCallback(); // stop auto-updates
    });
})();

You can make this a bookmarklet by prefixing the code with javascript: as in the other JS-based solution.

And if you want to make this a permanent fix, you can save this as a TamperMonkey/Greasemonkey script, as follows:

// ==UserScript==
// @name         Github: always show absolute times
// @match        https://github.com/*
// ==/UserScript==

(function() {
    setTimeout(function() {
        var els = window.document.querySelectorAll("time-ago,relative-time");
        els.forEach(function(el) {
            el.innerHTML += ' (' + el.title + ')'; // set original timestamp
            el.disconnectedCallback(); // stop auto-updates
        });
    }, 100); // YMMV, experiment with the timeout
})();

That's not very pretty but it seems to do the job.