# Bookmark reminder "date in post" in the past

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmark-reminder-date-in-post-in-the-past/180128
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [February 18, 2021, 1:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmark-reminder-date-in-post-in-the-past/180128 "2021-02-18T01:13:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![seanblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@seanblue](https://meta.discourse.org/u/seanblue)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2021, 1:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmark-reminder-date-in-post-in-the-past/180128/1 "2021-02-18T01:13:31Z")

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Detecting a date in the post to suggest as a reminder time is a cool feature, but it would probably be best to not provide the option when it’s in the past, rather than provide it just to have selecting it generate an error.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/f/7/f7a714d5827fb78adb7ad85458be3e8b9deb4264.png)

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### Author: ![martin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/martin/32/491371_2.png) [@martin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/martin)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2021, 4:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmark-reminder-date-in-post-in-the-past/180128/2 "2021-02-18T04:45:33Z")

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You are right! I will make it so 🙂

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### Author: ![martin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/martin/32/491371_2.png) [@martin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/martin)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2021, 3:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmark-reminder-date-in-post-in-the-past/180128/4 "2021-02-19T03:58:01Z")

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I merged a fix for this today:

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/12138](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/12138)

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### Author: ![martin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/martin/32/491371_2.png) [@martin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/martin)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2021, 3:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bookmark-reminder-date-in-post-in-the-past/180128/5 "2021-02-19T03:58:05Z")

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