Use relative-time to render absolute dates (#36238)

`<relative-time>` can render absolute dates when passed
[`threshold="P0Y"`](https://github.com/github/relative-time-element#threshold-string-default-p30d)
and `prefix=""`, so remove the previously used `<absolute-date>` element
in its favor.

Devtest before:

<img width="324" height="210" alt="Screenshot 2025-12-23 at 20 22 44"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/cf78e0e7-f480-415f-98d5-09b25f9d5a8b"
/>

Devtest after:

<img width="274" height="184" alt="Screenshot 2025-12-23 at 20 22 49"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5e7d25f6-eea1-4a8c-ba71-02b570804b95"
/>

Repo activity (rendering unchanged):

<img width="1023" height="67" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/2c4fd6cb-14ab-43c6-ae4b-f86946b28288"
/>

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Signed-off-by: silverwind <me@silverwind.io>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Copilot <175728472+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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silverwind
2026-02-16 11:58:04 +01:00
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parent 0e99932530
commit cfc60b2142
7 changed files with 11 additions and 81 deletions

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@@ -93,14 +93,14 @@ func dateTimeFormat(format string, datetime any) template.HTML {
attrs := []string{`weekday=""`, `year="numeric"`}
switch format {
case "short", "long": // date only
attrs = append(attrs, `month="`+format+`"`, `day="numeric"`)
return template.HTML(fmt.Sprintf(`<absolute-date %s date="%s">%s</absolute-date>`, strings.Join(attrs, " "), datetimeEscaped, textEscaped))
attrs = append(attrs, `threshold="P0Y"`, `month="`+format+`"`, `day="numeric"`, `prefix=""`)
case "full": // full date including time
attrs = append(attrs, `format="datetime"`, `month="short"`, `day="numeric"`, `hour="numeric"`, `minute="numeric"`, `second="numeric"`, `data-tooltip-content`, `data-tooltip-interactive="true"`)
return template.HTML(fmt.Sprintf(`<relative-time %s datetime="%s">%s</relative-time>`, strings.Join(attrs, " "), datetimeEscaped, textEscaped))
default:
panic("Unsupported format " + format)
}
return template.HTML(fmt.Sprintf(`<relative-time %s datetime="%s">%s</relative-time>`, strings.Join(attrs, " "), datetimeEscaped, textEscaped))
}
func timeSinceTo(then any, now time.Time) template.HTML {

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@@ -32,10 +32,10 @@ func TestDateTime(t *testing.T) {
assert.EqualValues(t, "-", du.AbsoluteShort(timeutil.TimeStamp(0)))
actual := du.AbsoluteShort(refTime)
assert.EqualValues(t, `<absolute-date weekday="" year="numeric" month="short" day="numeric" date="2018-01-01T00:00:00Z">2018-01-01</absolute-date>`, actual)
assert.EqualValues(t, `<relative-time weekday="" year="numeric" threshold="P0Y" month="short" day="numeric" prefix="" datetime="2018-01-01T00:00:00Z">2018-01-01</relative-time>`, actual)
actual = du.AbsoluteShort(refTimeStamp)
assert.EqualValues(t, `<absolute-date weekday="" year="numeric" month="short" day="numeric" date="2017-12-31T19:00:00-05:00">2017-12-31</absolute-date>`, actual)
assert.EqualValues(t, `<relative-time weekday="" year="numeric" threshold="P0Y" month="short" day="numeric" prefix="" datetime="2017-12-31T19:00:00-05:00">2017-12-31</relative-time>`, actual)
actual = du.FullTime(refTimeStamp)
assert.EqualValues(t, `<relative-time weekday="" year="numeric" format="datetime" month="short" day="numeric" hour="numeric" minute="numeric" second="numeric" data-tooltip-content data-tooltip-interactive="true" datetime="2017-12-31T19:00:00-05:00">2017-12-31 19:00:00 -05:00</relative-time>`, actual)