# Read time misreporting?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/read-time-misreporting/72370
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [October 18, 2017, 7:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/read-time-misreporting/72370 "2017-10-18T19:07:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![Stephen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stephen/32/95011_2.png) [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2017, 7:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/read-time-misreporting/72370/1 "2017-10-18T19:07:17Z")

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Just looking at my profile my read time shows as:

![38](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/3/2/32d2e59e70bce8d134ad2fb3dea892a64c4e31e4.png)

Without knowing what the 3 refers to I can’t say it’s necessarily wrong, but it doesn’t look right either!

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### Author: ![jomaxro](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jomaxro/32/126216_2.png) [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2017, 7:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/read-time-misreporting/72370/2 "2017-10-18T19:14:15Z")

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There certainly should be a unit. In your case that is referring to days, but picking a few random users:  
`@sozumansuri07` has a 1, and the unit is minutes, and `@phlegz` has a 3, and the unit is hours.

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### Author: ![Stephen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stephen/32/95011_2.png) [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2017, 7:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/read-time-misreporting/72370/3 "2017-10-18T19:15:40Z")

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Yeah I checked other users prior to reporting to ensure it wasn’t just me. It’s happening on other instances too.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2017, 7:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/read-time-misreporting/72370/4 "2017-10-18T19:31:57Z")

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Hmm is this a regression, not showing the time unit, @eviltrout?

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### Author: ![eviltrout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/eviltrout/32/5275_2.png) [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2017, 5:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/read-time-misreporting/72370/5 "2017-10-24T17:47:34Z")

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I’ve fixed my regression here:

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/5f47a4807b4a5a08052e2bbdedb5d228f00a59dc](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/5f47a4807b4a5a08052e2bbdedb5d228f00a59dc)

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2017, 6:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/read-time-misreporting/72370/6 "2017-10-24T18:00:35Z")

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