I do understand that the timestamps are useful—IN YouTube.
The reason is when you are in the video itself, and go to the Timestamp popup, you can click on it and the video will commence playing from that time.
However, it makes harder to read (in my opinion) when you copied that data from YouTube and then paste it (as text) into a post on Free Republic.
I guess you can read around it, as Sunken Civ desires to keep using it. It’s his post, and I respect that. I only offered a suggestion and am not upset it won’t be used.
When I have looked at long videos, I have found using time numbers useful when checking back on a tidbit of information that went past too quickly.
The thing I find annoying is the phonetic transcription of some words. I kept seeing reference to a river or valley variously named Ryan or Rine, I hope this was a reference to Germany’s Rhine River and that I am spelling that right.