relative dates?

[eluser]Derek Allard[/eluser]
Intelligent defaults are important, but without configuration, your "sensical" settings are just as useless to me as the original assumptions. For example, I personally want to see "3 weeks 2 days" instead of "23 days". I can see that not everyone would, so probably a good case of configuration. Same thing with hours and minutes (and seconds). I don't care about that, but I could imagine situations where a developer would want it.

That said though, your central point of more intelligent defaults is well taken