NoResults "Collecting results..." empty state says "about about X hours"

[noahtalerman]

Fleet versions

• Discovered: on branch 52106-report-interval-help-text (PR Clarify report interval copy: host uptime, not Fleet polling #52107), not yet merged to main/released
• Reproduced: same

Web browser and operating system: Chrome, macOS (local dev environment)

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💥 Actual behavior

The "Collecting results..." empty state for a report (frontend/pages/queries/details/components/NoResults/NoResults.tsx) reads the word "about" twice, e.g.:

Hosts will start reporting results after they've been online for about about 12 hours.

The component's copy hardcodes the literal word "about" before an interpolated readableCheckbackTime value:

Hosts will start reporting results after they've been online for
about {readableCheckbackTime}.

readableCheckbackTime is built with date-fns' formatDistance, which itself prepends a qualifier like "about" for many ranges (e.g. it returns the string "about 12 hours"). Combined, the sentence doubles the word.

🛠️ Expected behavior

The empty state reads naturally with a single "about", e.g. "...online for about 12 hours."

🧑‍💻 Steps to reproduce

• Have been confirmed to consistently lead to reproduction in multiple Fleet instances.

1. Set a report's interval so its next expected check-back time falls in an hours-scale range (e.g. ~12 hours away).
2. View the report before it has any results.
3. Observe the "Collecting results..." empty state text reads "...online for about about 12 hours."

🕯️ More info (optional)

Found and fixed in the same session/branch (52106-report-interval-help-text, PR #52107) that introduced the surrounding copy change — this bug pre-dates that PR by way of the pre-existing about {readableCheckbackTime} pattern, but was only noticed once QA'ing the interval copy work. Fix: swap formatDistance for formatDistanceStrict, which returns the bare distance ("12 hours") without a qualifier prefix, so the single literal "about" in the copy is the only one left.