Re: [PATCH 2/2] --date=relative falls back to "short" format for commits older than a year

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 09:09:02AM +0100, Marius Storm-Olsen wrote:

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Another option would to give higher resolution in number of years,
like "3.5 years" or even "3.1 years".

And using shorter names for the units would be a no-go?

  "3y 2m ago"    <--

Personally I think that looks terrible. But I recognize that it is
very subjective. The only objective thing I can say is that "m" is not a
unique prefix of a time unit, due to "minutes". Yes, it is obvious if
you see the "y" first, but I actually parse the relative time backwards
in my head and think "2 minutes ago, oh wait, 3 years, that must be
months".

-Peff