#3366 NORM 8.2.0 (: Add tooltip palettes to time spans in Journal (was: Time spans are cut off)

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#3366: Add tooltip palettes to time spans in Journal
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  Reporter:  bert              |       Owner:  Eben                
      Type:  defect            |      Status:  new                 
  Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:  8.2.0 (was Update.2)
 Component:  journal-activity  |     Version:                      
Resolution:                    |    Keywords:  8.2.0:? relnote     
  Verified:  0                 |    Blocking:                      
 Blockedby:                    |  
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Changes (by Eben):

  * keywords:  relnote => 8.2.0:? relnote
  * milestone:  Retriage, Please! => 8.2.0 (was Update.2)


Comment:

 Well, I did have a go at this myself a little while back.  Most notably, I
 removed the "and" (replaced with a comma to save space), and also adjusted
 the code so that it always displays no more than the two highest order
 time units.  These were both done in an attempt to minimize the length of
 the string.

 I think the best thing to do, at this point, is add palettes (primary
 only) to the time spans, which reveal the full relative date string in the
 primary text, and the absolute date in the secondary text.  I think this
 is the most scalable (I18N), and the most useful.  If we wanted, we could
 later add an option to the menu to toggle between relative and absolute
 dates in the Journal.  It's a really logical place to do so.

 I'm only putting this in 8.2.0 with the hope that I get the chance to do
 it myself...

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