Fixed In a moment vs A moment ago - what's the difference and how it occurs?

[Andro]

Affected version

XF 2.1.x

Regular occurence:

Surprising occurence:

What is the difference between two and why A moment ago comes more often than In a moment.

I was said:

"In a moment" phrase is applied within the first 60 seconds and then it changes to "A moment ago".

But it wasn't so which i mentioned today. I was referred to a bug report for its assured debugging.

 

[Robust]

It's part of relative timestamps. If the timestamp is in the future by less than 60 seconds, you'll see "In a moment". If the timestamp is in the past by less than 60 seconds (or is the current timestamp), or if it's within the next 2 seconds, you'll see "A moment ago".

Not sure why you're seeing "in a moment" there - the timestamp for that might be slightly bugged, or some kind of issue on your side.

 

[Andro]

Not sure why you're seeing "in a moment" there - the timestamp for that might be slightly bugged, or some kind of issue on your side.

No. It happens just in every XF2.1 forums i visit including this one.

 

[marquisite]

I've noticed this here on XenForo.com when logged out. For instance, my member tooltip says I was last seen 'In 2 minutes'. Perhaps this is a trade-off for guest page caching (new in XF2.1).

 

[Andro]

It also happens on reactions list. Yes, mostly occurs while you browse as a guest with guest page caching enabled.

 

[XF Bug Bot]

Thank you for reporting this issue. It has now been resolved and we are aiming to include it in a future XF release (2.1.5).

Change log:

Workaround for displaying future relative timestamps in pages output from the guest page cache.

Any changes made as a result of this issue being resolved may not be rolled out here until later.