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SDK should support UIHint of displaying Timestamp as DateTime

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Description

For data sources sourced from log files with absolute timestamps, I heavily prefer to display to the user the absolute timestamp as well as the calculated relative timestamp.

The SDK provides hints for other UI items, but it doesn't seem to do so for this. For example:

    // todo: needs to be changed by user manually to DateTime UTC format in UI. SDK doesn't yet support specifying this <DateTimeTimestampOptionsParameter DateTimeEnabled="true" />
    private static readonly ColumnConfiguration TimestampAbsColumn = new ColumnConfiguration(
        new ColumnMetadata(new Guid("{B5896C69-020C-40A0-9BDC-C34A19011C28}"), "Timestamp", "Timestamp when the message was created."),
        new UIHints { Width = 80, });

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Research direction

Start by locating the SDK's UIHints implementation and the DateTimeTimestampOptionsParameter referenced in the example. Trace how existing UI hints are exposed to consumers and define what support for DateTimeEnabled should look like; done means a timestamp column can request both absolute DateTime and relative timestamp display through the SDK.

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Assessment

Tech stack
csharp
Domain
tooling
Issue type
Feature
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4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
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Newbie friendliness
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