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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/wivaca2 on 2026-06-04 04:39:21+00:00.
Just about any time I'm looking at something in HA, I want to know what time something happened or when it will happen, but I need to know more than just rounded hours. I want to see it happened at 7:26 and if I want to round that, I can easily convert in my head "oh, that was about 2 hours ago".
What I CAN'T do is know something happened at precisely 7:26 when the time is 9:54 and it says "2 hours ago".
Why are we getting this maddening imprecision on our dashboard? Yes, I know I can write a helper to make it show up precisely, but why must we burn clock cycles making it vague, then more entities created and code to execute to get back to what we started with?
As if time wasn't bad enough, "5 days ago" is pretty vague. I'm just surprised once it goes past 7 days, it doesn't literally say, "Uh, I think that was last week, maybe?"
If I wanted a rounded guess, I'd ask someone without a watch. Am I missing some global configuration flag I can change to get rid of this?