time - Best way to create a timespan GUI element?

I have to define a GUI Element that contains timespan with minutes, hours, days, weeks and months. Whats the best practice in this case?

The following possibilities I considered:

Are there any other good ways?

Answer

My initial idea is to use a slider where you can chose timestamps appropriate to the user. The further back in time, the more rough time steps you have in this logarithmic scale. It might not be appropriate everywhere, but it’s fast and intuitive:

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