element-hq / element-hq/element-meta
display date sent on every message
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Description
### Your use case
#### What would you like to do?
When I browse a communication channel, I only see the time. I haven't figured out how to display the date. I'm often in doubt/frustrated as to whether it's a message from yesterday, today... ?

On discord, for example, this is how it's displayed:

### Have you considered any alternatives?
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### Additional context
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Research direction
No file, test, or entry point is named. Start by locating the Element client component that renders message timestamps and compare its current output with the issue screenshots; done means channel messages show enough date information to distinguish today, yesterday, and earlier messages.
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Assessment
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100