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I don't think it's really an edge case. Probably one of the main uses, actually.

Sure, if you use it to show comment age, you shouldn't ever see it, but I'm sure they fully support using it for countdowns, too.

EDIT: it's the 4th example under relative time for Moment.js (https://momentjs.com/).

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I can totally agree about relative timestamping in both directions (past+future) - my argument is more about the UX of situations where you're canonically referring to a past event.

So as not to spam with my reply to a similar comment, I'll link it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14452335

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