I always get confused whenever an app displays the time for something I just sent as "in 0s" like, there's clearly code for things being sent into the future, but what's even the use case for it

like do developers want to make sure they don't crash the phones of time travelers, have I been using a tachyonic antitelephone all along without realizing, or what

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@Thaminga I'd assume it's a general-purpose timestamp-to-relative-time converter library.

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