Why this time format for comment sections?

Something that's been bugging me for as long as I can remember is that when you post a comment--especially in the comment section for the Daily Puzzles--instead of showing the date and time of each comment, it says "just now", "x minutes ago", "x hour(s)" ago, etc. (I believe this format stretches on for up to a month?)

What's the point of this? Oftentimes I wanna go back and check comments I made a while ago, and I find it unnecessarily hard to remember if the comment was posted, say 15 or 40 minutes ago, and I have to meticulously sift through pages in search of said comments.

It would, at least in my opinion, be a lot easier if comments straight away got a regular timestamp stating the date and time of posting. Counting time backwards dynamically like it is now feels very unintuitive and not very user-friendly.

This is of course not a major problem, I can live with it, but I just can't see the functionality of the current format.

EDIT: for the various Forums, where topics normally don't receive hundreds of comments in mere hours, I can see the point in this system. So I guess my question mainly concerns the comment sections for the Daily Puzzles.

Yes I agree that would be very helpful, the timestamping system is so messed up

Not just me then. Reassuring!

It's also when +1 hour has passed, there is no way of telling where within the span of that hour your comment is posted. So even if you know that the comment was posted exactly 1h37m ago, it's just buried along with al the other "1 hour ago" comments. Unless, of course you sort of memorize the comments that are before/after yours and localize it that way. It's a minor hassle in this troubled world, but a hassle still.

For true hackers who use the web version. Open your browser console, paste the code below:

[...document.getElementsByClassName("comment-post-actions-time")].forEach(element => {span = element.getElementsByTagName("span")[0];span.innerHTML = span.getAttribute("title");});

and press Enter:

You get Pacific Time