From 3648cc5ab906a8da6e796c5b3f375976a5d793a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Talon <talon@iamtalon.me>
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2024 18:18:09 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Switch to absolute time for now

---
 frontend/src/views/main.ts | 17 +++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/frontend/src/views/main.ts b/frontend/src/views/main.ts
index 12bd22c..bfeeb68 100644
--- a/frontend/src/views/main.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/views/main.ts
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ export class MainView extends View {
         this.syncMessages();
         this.updateInterval = setInterval(() => {
             this.updateVisibleMessageShownTimestamps();
-        }, 1000);
+        }, 10000);
         setTimeout(() => this.attemptToSendUnsentMessages(), 2000);
 
         state.events.registerHandler<MessageUpdated>("message-updated", (message) => {
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ export class MainView extends View {
                 state.save();
                 const renderedMessage = this.messageElementMap.get(existing.id);
                 if (renderedMessage) {
-                    (renderedMessage as ListItem).setText(`${existing.content}; ${this.convertIsoTimeStringToRelative(existing.createdAt)}`);
+                    (renderedMessage as ListItem).setText(`${existing.content}; ${this.convertIsoTimeStringToFriendly(existing.createdAt)}`);
                 }
             }
         });
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ export class MainView extends View {
                             existing.fileSize = message.fileSize;
                             const renderedMessage = this.messageElementMap.get(message.id);
                             if (renderedMessage) {
-                                (renderedMessage as ListItem).setText(`${message.content}; ${this.convertIsoTimeStringToRelative(message.createdAt)}`);
+                                (renderedMessage as ListItem).setText(`${message.content}; ${this.convertIsoTimeStringToFriendly(message.createdAt)}`);
                             }
                         }
                     }
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ export class MainView extends View {
     }
 
     private renderMessage(message: IMessage): UINode {
-        const itm = new ListItem(`${message.content}; ${this.convertIsoTimeStringToRelative(message.createdAt)}`);
+        const itm = new ListItem(`${message.content}; ${this.convertIsoTimeStringToFriendly(message.createdAt)}`);
         itm.setUserData(message.id);
         itm.onClick(() => {
             new MessageDialog(message).open();
@@ -443,6 +443,15 @@ export class MainView extends View {
         }
     }
 
+    private convertIsoTimeStringToFriendly(isoTimeString: string): string {
+        const date = new Date(isoTimeString);
+        const now = new Date();
+        if (date.getDate() === now.getDate() && date.getMonth() === now.getMonth() && date.getFullYear() === now.getFullYear()) {
+            return date.toLocaleTimeString();
+        } else {
+            return date.toLocaleString();
+        }
+    }
     private updateVisibleMessageShownTimestamps() {
         const lowerIndex = Math.max(this.messageList.getFocus() - 10, 0);
         const upperIndex = Math.min(this.messageList.getFocus() + 10, this.messageList.children.length);