Github was the first thing I thought of when reading this. My only use case for the commit date is to quickly check if a certain commit merged before a branch was automatically cut, so I need the day of the week and time, not "11 days ago."

Fortunately, if you hover over the relative date, it will expand to show the exact date time, but it would be nice if this were swapped.

Yup, agreed. I came hear looking for this one. Whenever I need a timestamp in GitHub I need the exact time. I always have to hover to get the info I need.

Seriously, of all the platforms that do this pattern, this one is the most user hostile.