Adding tooltip to post time

[confuseamuse]

In conjunction with a mod that turns the post time relative (example "about an hour ago" instead of "01/08/17 14:26:16 BST"), I'd like to add an edit to the post time which displays a tooltip with a more accurate post time (as seen above).

That way, you get the best of both. I'm having trouble coding it though.

So far, I've managed to get the tooltip to display the time, but it displays the current time only, instead of just the post time. So it looks like this:


Note: The forum time is offset by UTC+1 in the post whilst the tooltip runs off the current time (as of the screenshot) in UTC.

Here's the code I have in Display.template

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<div class="smalltext"><a href="', $message['href'], '" rel="nofollow" title="', timeformat(time(),'%a %e %b %Y - %T' , $message['time']), '">

Any ideas?

[Shambles]

Try

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<div class="smalltext"><a href="', $message['href'], '" rel="nofollow" title="', timeformat(time(),'%a %e %b %Y - %T' , $message['time']), '">

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<div class="smalltext"><a href="', $message['href'], '" rel="nofollow" title="', timeformat(strtotime($message['time']),'%a %e %b %Y - %T'), '">

I think that's what you may be after.

[confuseamuse]

Try

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<div class="smalltext"><a href="', $message['href'], '" rel="nofollow" title="', timeformat(time(),'%a %e %b %Y - %T' , $message['time']), '">

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<div class="smalltext"><a href="', $message['href'], '" rel="nofollow" title="', timeformat(strtotime($message['time']),'%a %e %b %Y - %T'), '">

I think that's what you may be after.

This almost worked. Now the tooltip prints the time relative to the mod statement. (e.g. If a post says (posted 3 hours ago) it prints the time exactly three hour prior from now.) I think the mod actively changes the posted time, which is slightly annoying. Can this be changed to print the timestamp directly from the database instead?

[Shambles]

If you believe it's an issue with the mod you need to ask in the mod's support thread.

That said, try the following to see if it fits your requirement:

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<div class="smalltext"><a href="', $message['href'], '" rel="nofollow" title="', timeformat(strtotime($message['time']),'%a %e %b %Y - %T','forum'), '">