[juliusmarminge]

The pull request Summary tab's comment tooltip used new Date(createdAt).toLocaleString(), so it ignored the Time format setting (Settings → Display), unlike chat timestamps (#35368). The author's commit switched it to formatChatTimestampTooltip. That fixed the hour cycle but also changed the date to '21st October 2026', dropped the seconds, and changed the tooltip under every setting, which the earlier proof review rejected as beyond the defect. I kept the author's approach (read timestampFormat through useClientSettings in CommentIdentity) but swapped the formatter for a new formatFullTimestamp in apps/web/src/timestampFormat.ts. It calls toLocaleString(undefined, { hour12 }) for 12-hour or 24-hour and passes no options for 'locale'. The date layout and seconds stay as before, and System default output is identical to main. Only the hour cycle follows the setting. I merged origin/main into the PR head with a merge commit; there were no conflicts. The author's two commits are kept and mine come after them.

Fixes #35368

Reproduction on main

In an en-US browser, open Settings → General → Time format and select 24-hour. Open a pull request containing comments, select Summary, and hover a comment's relative timestamp. Main shows the browser-default numeric date and a 12-hour clock with seconds; this change shows a 24-hour clock with the chat tooltip's ordinal date and minute precision. Switch to 12-hour and hover again to confirm the explicit clock preference is honored. These steps were derived from the issue, PR, and source; they were not executed.

Evidence

Chromium, en-US, UTC, 1280×800, light theme; real app on fresh isolated databases with a synthetic GitHub API fixture. On each commit, select Settings → General → Time format → 24-hour, open the pull request → Summary, and hover the comment timestamp. Repeat with 12-hour and System default.

Proven: the scenario fails on base and passes on head. Base ignores 24-hour and shows 6:05:32 PM; head shows 18:05:32.

Capture	Before	After
Commit	5f85768394	895727f361
24-hour selected
24-hour tooltip
12-hour selected
12-hour tooltip
System default selected
System default tooltip
Recording	Before interaction	After interaction

Scenario source · Synthetic GitHub fixture

The supplied head retains the numeric date and seconds; the ordinal date and minute precision described in triage were not observed.

Not shown:

• Other browser locales and non-UTC time zones were not exercised.
• Chat tooltip formatting was not compared directly; the supplied head's pull request tooltip retains numeric dates and seconds.

Tests

vp test run src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestSummaryTab.browser.test.tsx: 5 passed. The same test against main's PullRequestSummaryTab.tsx fails only on the defect: expected '9/1/2026, 5:30:00 PM' to be '9/1/2026, 17:30:00'. vp run check:changed: format, lint, knip, typecheck (2 packages), tests (2 files) and the React compiler check all pass.

Not in this change

• The author's formatChatTimestampTooltip approach also changed the date layout and dropped seconds in the tooltip. I removed that: it is a look change beyond the defect, and no maintainer asked for it.

Who did the work

• Written by Claude Opus 5.5, in Claude Code
• Reviewed by GPT-6.1 Sol, in Codex, and by Claude Opus 5.5, each on its own
• Proof captured by GPT-6.1 Sol and checked by Claude Opus 5.5

Run by the t3code factory in T3 Code.

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at 895727f

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Pull-request comment tooltips now honor the existing 12-hour or 24-hour preference while preserving the default locale formatting. The change is limited to displayed text, with no changes to stored timestamps or external operations.

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Walkthrough

The Summary tab now formats comment-time tooltips using the configured timestamp format. Browser tests verify the 24-hour setting and reset the setting to "locale" between tests.

Changes: Comment timestamp formatting

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Configured comment timestamp tooltips and coverage apps/web/src/timestampFormat.ts, apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestSummaryTab.tsx, apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestSummaryTab.browser.test.tsx	formatFullTimestamp applies the configured hour-cycle preference while retaining runtime locale and time zone defaults. CommentIdentity uses it for comment-time tooltips. The browser test checks 24-hour output and resets the setting to "locale" in test setup.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Suggested reviewers: maria-rcks, shivamhwp, tonybynmp4

Merge Risk: Low · up to 89572

The tooltip now follows the Time format setting, and existing output for System default is unchanged. The new test can pass on hosts with a 24-hour default even if the setting is ignored, so it could miss a future regression. This is a small follow-up and not a merge blocker.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title names the main change: pull request comment tooltips now follow the Time format setting. It uses a conventional commit prefix and plain language, and it matches the linked issue about clock …
Linked Issues check		Issue #35368 requires the Summary tab comment tooltip to show 12-hour or 24-hour time according to the app Time format setting. It also requires the comment date, instant, and relative time to stay co…
Out of Scope Changes check		The whole-PR diff against the merge base changes three areas. PullRequestSummaryTab.tsx adds the useClientSettings and formatFullTimestamp imports, reads timestampFormat, and replaces new Date(...).to…
Description check		The description follows the repository template and is detailed. It explains the problem (the Summary tab comment tooltip ignored the Time format setting, issue #35368), the change (read timestampForm…

Full details: Title check

Explanation

The title names the main change: pull request comment tooltips now follow the Time format setting. It uses a conventional commit prefix and plain language, and it matches the linked issue about clock format. No search was needed.

Full details: Linked Issues check

Explanation

Issue #35368 requires the Summary tab comment tooltip to show 12-hour or 24-hour time according to the app Time format setting. It also requires the comment date, instant, and relative time to stay correct, and it asks for parity with chat timestamp tooltips.

At the reviewed head, PullRequestSummaryTab.tsx reads timestampFormat via useClientSettings inside CommentIdentity and renders the tooltip with formatFullTimestamp(comment.createdAt, timestampFormat). The new formatFullTimestamp in apps/web/src/timestampFormat.ts calls toLocaleString with hour12 set to (timestampFormat === "12-hour") for 12-hour and 24-hour settings. For the locale setting it passes no options, so the browser locale decides the clock. This covers the explicit 12-hour and 24-hour requirement. The date, instant, and relative time are not changed. The ' · Open comment on host' suffix is unchanged.

The current PR description says the code calls formatChatTimestampTooltip. That description is stale. The code at head calls formatFullTimestamp, which keeps the default toLocaleString date layout and seconds. The issue leaves date layout and precision to maintainers, so this output satisfies the requirement. The browser test at head was not re-read in this review. The previous assessment and the change summary report a 24-hour test that asserts the hour-cycle output, so this relies on that report.

Minor difference: formatFullTimestamp uses the browser default locale (undefined), while chat formatters use the host system locale. The hour cycle, which is the issue's requirement, still follows the setting.

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

Explanation

The whole-PR diff against the merge base changes three areas. PullRequestSummaryTab.tsx adds the useClientSettings and formatFullTimestamp imports, reads timestampFormat, and replaces new Date(...).toLocaleString() with formatFullTimestamp. apps/web/src/timestampFormat.ts adds the exported formatFullTimestamp helper that the tooltip uses. PullRequestSummaryTab.browser.test.tsx adds the settings mock and a 24-hour test. Each change directly supports issue #35368. No unrelated code, configuration, or documentation changes were found in the inspected diffs.

The PR description refers to formatChatTimestampTooltip and to a fix that reuses the chat formatter. The code at head does not use that formatter. This is a description mismatch, not an out-of-scope change.

Full details: Description check

Explanation

The description follows the repository template and is detailed. It explains the problem (the Summary tab comment tooltip ignored the Time format setting, issue #35368), the change (read timestampFormat via useClientSettings in CommentIdentity and use a new formatFullTimestamp that sets hour12 only for 12-hour or 24-hour), and why the author's earlier formatChatTimestampTooltip approach was replaced (it changed the date layout, dropped seconds, and changed the tooltip under every setting). The Scope section links the issue and states it is a bug fix. The Verification section lists the focused browser test (5 passed, with the defect reproduced on main), the check:changed suite, before/after screenshots and a recording, and states what was not checked (other locales and time zones). Attribution of the models and harness is included. Minor gaps: the Reproduction section says its steps were not executed, and the description's 'Proven' claim and the note that the head retains numeric dates and seconds are partly at odds with the PR objectives, which describe a different (author's) implementation. The description is clear about its own scope, so these are reviewer notes rather than missing required sections.

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[juliusmarminge]

The automated pipeline stopped on this pull request and will not merge it:

the proof was not accepted:

• head-tooltip24.png differs from base-tooltip24.png beyond the defect: besides the 24-hour clock (13:41 vs 1:41:18 PM), the date changes from '10/21/2026' to '21st October 2026' and the seconds are dropped. formatChatTimestampTooltip (apps/web/src/timestampFormat.ts:121-132) causes this. A visual fix may remove only the defect.
• The diff changes the tooltip on every Time format setting (System default and 12-hour now also get the ordinal date and no seconds), but the after captures show only 24-hour.
• The before and after recordings do not show the same steps: base-recording.mp4 opens with 24-hour already selected, while head-first-recording.mp4 shows the dropdown going from System default to 24-hour.
• base-setting.png and head-setting.png are byte-identical files, so they cannot show which commit each came from (the content looks right for both).

It stays open for a person to finish or close.

Dismissing prior approval to re-evaluate 895727f

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- Around line 268-270: Update the exact-time test to cover both 24-hour and
12-hour formats, set state.timestampFormat for each case, and derive the
expected text using that case’s explicit hour12 value so an ignored setting
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Make the clock assertion fail when the setting is ignored on any host.

The expected text uses the host default hour cycle. Nothing in the browser config or render helper pins it. On a host that defaults to 24-hour, the old output can match hour12: false even when the setting is ignored. The test then passes for the wrong reason. A 12-hour case, with hour12: true as its expectation, makes each host default fail one row.

Suggested fix

-it("shows a comment's exact time in the chosen 24-hour clock", async () => {
+it.each([
+  ["24-hour", false],
+  ["12-hour", true],
+] as const)("shows a comment's exact time in the chosen %s clock", async (format, hour12) => {
   setup();
-  state.timestampFormat = "24-hour";
+  state.timestampFormat = format;

-  const expected = new Date(createdAt).toLocaleString(undefined, { hour12: false });
+  const expected = new Date(createdAt).toLocaleString(undefined, { hour12 });

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Review comment at @apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestSummaryTab.browser.test.tsx around lines 268 - 270:
Update the exact-time test to cover both 24-hour and 12-hour formats, set state.timestampFormat for each case, and derive the expected text using that case’s explicit hour12 value so an ignored setting fails regardless of the host default.

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