Add timestamps

[quackduck]

Add timestamps

[asrp]

Nice, that was really fast! User specified timezones looks pretty cool to me. I'd want to see seconds but I could see it working without that too.

So, in some IRC clients they have timestamps on the same line on the left. Something like

[1m in]    ishan: test
[4m in]    ishan: test 2
[4m in]    ishan: nice!
[4m in]    ishan: /tz Asia/Dubai
[10:44 am] ishan: test!

or maybe it could be distinguished from the rest in some other way

1m in
  ishan: test
4m in
  ishan: test 2
  ishan: nice!
  ishan: /tz Asia/Dubai
10:44 am
  ishan: test!

Indenting might mess up some of your other layout though, so don't know if it is worth it.

I'm happy to have timestamps though, even the way they are now.

[quackduck]

Lookin good:

[quackduck]

I have tried this before, lemme try implementing again, I'll let you know how it goes.

[quackduck]

The problem with this is that we have no idea what the user's time zone is (we could try getting it with IPs but that'll be quite a hassle)
What we could do is instead display the timestamp as minutes since the user joined, would that be okay?

[quackduck]

Or we could ask the user to add in their timezone

[quackduck]

Implemented both!

[quackduck]

should it show the seconds too or is that unnecessary?

[quackduck]

I like the second idea you have! But you're right about it messing up some layouts. Is there another way we could distinguish the stamps? Maybe I could have an extra line above and below the stamps or maybe I could change the timestamp's color, what do you think?

[quackduck]

(I think the first design (of the IRC clients) makes the stamps too intrusive and the interface less clean)

[asrp]

Yeah, I think color would work. I think an empty line above could work too. We'd need to try it to see if two lines for timestamps is too much, though I think an empty line is easier to visually distinguish than color.

[quackduck]

tried empty lines, looked bad, now we have timestamps that take up only one line, print on the right for zero intrusive-ness and also leave one line empty between messages! absolutely perfect!