QuantumBadger / QuantumBadger/RedReader
Durations/ages near a month boundary are formatted incorrectly
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- Dominant language
- Java
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Description
A user on reddit has reported a weird issue with date formatting, where the parent comments seemed to be less old than the child comments, see screenshot attached.
I could repro this locally, it looks like Joda might be doing something unexpected in PeriodFormatterBuilder.
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the month-boundary age-formatting problem described in the issue, then inspect the date-formatting path that uses Joda's PeriodFormatterBuilder. Compare parent and child comment ages around a month boundary; done means the displayed ordering and durations are correct in that case.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- android, java
- Domain
- mobile
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100