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I'd be a lot more OK if all "humanized" dates could be toggled to an ISO date with a button click.

It's so true though, if trying to scrutinize the history of a repo I find I frequently need to clone it locally just to access the info I need in any kind of decent interface.

I responded to the parent comment about this [0], and it seems like something you might be interested in as well.

Web developers should be using time elements, which include the ISO-8601 datetime.

If web developers do this, there's no reason you couldn't make a simple browser extension that allows you to toggle times from humanized to ISO-8601.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9824147

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