In my opinion, the dates in the site data manager are a little hard to grasp at first sight. We recently added support for RelativeTimeFormat in Gecko: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=&hl=en#!topic/firefox-dev/P8ll42qpbZc That would allow us to go from 04/27/18, 09:36 PM to "five minutes ago" or "2 months ago". Sounds like an improvement to me!

The code that would need to change is here: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/4114ad2cfcbc511705c7865a4a34741812f9a2a9/browser/components/preferences/siteDataSettings.js#67 This is how sync displays relative dates (see bug 1184265): https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/4114ad2cfcbc511705c7865a4a34741812f9a2a9/browser/base/content/browser-sync.js#634-645

Hi Manish, if you're away until May 3rd I would like to give this bug to someone else to be able to land in the 61 timeframe. There's plenty of other bugs to work on later. Are you actively working on this? :) Thanks!

I'd be happy to take over here if Manish is not working on it.

I think we can go ahead here, the patch for this shouldn't be too complex either I hope :) Thanks!

Michael, are you still looking at this? :)

I will be able to take a look this weekend. Is that okay? I'm happy to give this to someone else if there is somebody who can do it before that :)

Try: https://treeherder.mozilla.org/#/jobs?repo=try&revision=516b6ec9c32103022568be9ac69c954bf2bda68b

New try push: https://treeherder.mozilla.org/#/jobs?repo=try&revision=335b3a6763abbf13ac067ea62211317ed1982291

Comment on attachment 8974518 [details] Bug 1447952 - Use relative time format in the site data manager r=johannh Johann Hofmann [:johannh] has approved the revision. https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D1253

Updated the patch according to comments. new try push: https://treeherder.mozilla.org/#/jobs?repo=try&revision=126451c5f8509ca97eb30a8541b888773596e595

This looks good to me but I can't import the patch due to conflicts. Would you mind rebasing on central and setting checkin-needed? Thanks!

Try after rebase: https://treeherder.mozilla.org/#/jobs?repo=try&revision=a6d6a3b55250a514d2beec50d82ce6358ee257f1

Pushed by ryanvm@gmail.com: https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/c3172bfa5d63 Use relative time format in the site data manager. r=johannh

Backout by csabou@mozilla.com: https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/638fa8732dca Backed out changeset c3172bfa5d63 for frequent browser chrome failures on browser_siteData.js. CLOSED TREE

This was backed out for frequent browser chrome failures on browser_siteData.js. Here is the range https://treeherder.mozilla.org/#/jobs?repo=mozilla-inbound&filter-resultStatus=testfailed&filter-resultStatus=busted&filter-resultStatus=exception&filter-searchStr=browser%20chrome&filter-failure_classification_id=2&tochange=638fa8732dca3cabcd1d13b254ac6f7308d91eb8&fromchange=c3172bfa5d63c410f7016de2b23da1adf8244d12&selectedJob=180749242 Failure log: https://treeherder.mozilla.org/logviewer.html#?job_id=180749242&repo=mozilla-inbound&lineNumber=17799 https://treeherder.mozilla.org/logviewer.html#?job_id=180748794&repo=mozilla-inbound&lineNumber=1717 Backout link: https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/638fa8732dca3cabcd1d13b254ac6f7308d91eb8

Use relative time format in the site data manager

So sorry about this. Looks like I completely screwed up the rebase. Johann, would you mind looking at https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D1454 to make sure I don't screw up again? This should include all the necessary changes on top of a recent tip. Sorry again!

Try run: https://treeherder.mozilla.org/#/jobs?repo=try&revision=f7277be72089646c4c3725a52dfa4ebb310fed8b

Comment on attachment 8981658 [details] Bug 1447952 - Use relative time format in the site data manager r=johannh Johann Hofmann [:johannh] has approved the revision. https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D1454

Pushed by ncsoregi@mozilla.com: https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/6c7e33619bde Use relative time format in the site data manager. r=johannh