[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Proposal: Lease expiry information display in My Settings -> About My Computer

Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com
Tue Aug 7 13:09:14 EDT 2012


On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Anish Mangal <anish at activitycentral.com> wrote:

>> Why is the proposal to show the number of days remaining?
>>
>
> Yes, I remember discussing specifically this with Roberto (PyEduca
> Technical head) back in Dec 2010, and my suggestion was exactly the
> same (to display the date).
>
> However, as per them (and I know this is not a rational explanation),
> they wanted us to display "no of days remaining".

Is there any limitation on displaying the information in both terms?
Days remaining and expiration date?

Just speculating about how I would mentally process such information,
my guess is that more than two weeks out, I'd look at the date, less
that two weeks out, I'd look at the days remaining.

cjl


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